ANSWER.—­They are intended for the great mass of intelligent mind, both in the free and in the slave states.  They partake, of course, of the intellectual peculiarities of the different authors.  Jay’s “INQUIRY” and Mrs. Child’s “APPEAL” abound in facts—­are dispassionate, ingenious, argumentative.  The “BIBLE AGAINST SLAVERY,” by the most careful and laborious research, has struck from slavery the prop, which careless Annotators, (writing, unconscious of the influence, the prevailing system of slavery throughout the Christian world exercised on their own minds,) have admitted was furnished for it in the Scriptures.  “Wythe” by a pains-taking and lucid adjustment of facts in the history of the Government, both before and after the adoption of the Constitution, and with a rigor of logic, that cannot, it is thought, be successfully encountered, has put to flight forever with unbiased minds, every doubt as to the “Power of Congress over the District of Columbia.”

There are among the abolitionists, Poets, and by the acknowledgment of their opponents, poets of no mean name too—­who, as the use of poets is, do address themselves often—­as John G. Whittier does always —­powerfully to the imagination and feelings of their readers.

Our publications cannot be classed according to any particular style or quality of composition.  They may characterized generally, as well suited to affect the public mind—­to rouse into healthful activity the conscience of this nation, stupified, torpid, almost dead, in relation to HUMAN RIGHTS, the high theme of which they treat!

It has often been alleged, that our writings appeal to the worst passions of the slaves, and that they are placed in their hands with a view to stir them to revolt.  Neither charge has any foundation in truth to rest upon.  The first finds no support in the tenor of the writings themselves; the last ought forever to be abandoned, in the absence of any single well authenticated instance of their having been conveyed by abolitionists to slaves, or of their having been even found in their possession.  To instigate the slaves to revolt, as the means of obtaining their liberty, would prove a lack of wisdom and honesty that none would impute to abolitionists, except such as are unacquainted with their character.  Revolt would be followed by the sure destruction, not only of all the slaves who might be concerned in it, but of multitudes of the innocent.  Moreover, the abolitionists, as a class, are religious—­they favor peace, and stand pledged in their constitution, before the country and heaven, to abide in peace, so far as a forcible vindication of the right of the slaves to their freedom is concerned.  Further still, no small number of them deny the right of defence, either to individuals or nations, even when forcibly and wrongfully attacked.  This disagreement among ourselves on this single point—­of which our adversaries are by no means ignorant, as they