11

No. III.

WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS 27

No. IV.

REMARKS OF INCREASE D. O'PHACE, ESQUIRE, AT AN
EX-TRUMPERY CAUCUS IN STATE STREET, REPORTED BY
MR. H. BIGLOW 40

No. V.

THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT. SOT TO A NUSRY RHYME 55

No. VI.

THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED 64

No. VII.

A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN
ANSWER TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY MR. HOSEA
BIGLOW, INCLOSED IN A NOTE FROM MR. BIGLOW TO S.
H. GAY, ESQ., EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL ANTISLAVERY
STANDARD 74

No. VIII.

A SECOND LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ. 86

No. IX.

A THIRD LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ. 106

GLOSSARY 127

INDEX 131

NOTICES OF AN INDEPENDENT PRESS.

[I have observed, reader, (bene- or male-volent, as it may happen,) that
it is customary to append to the second editions of books, and to the
second works of authors, short sentences commendatory of the first,
under the title of _Notices of the Press_. These, I have been given to
understand, are procurable at certain established rates, payment being
made either in money or advertising patronage by the publisher, or by an
adequate outlay of servility on the part of the author. Considering
these things with myself, and also that such notices are neither
intended, nor generally believed, to convey any real opinions, being a
purely ceremonial accompaniment of literature, and resembling
certificates to the virtues of various morbiferal panaceas, I conceived
that it would be not only more economical to prepare a sufficient number
of such myself, but also more immediately subservient to the end in
view, to prefix them to this our primary edition, rather than await the
contingency of a second, when they would seem to be of small utility. To
delay attaching the _bobs_ until the second attempt at flying the kite
would indicate but a slender experience in that useful art. Neither has
it escaped my notice, nor failed to afford me matter of reflection,
that, when a circus or a caravan is about to visit Jaalam, the initial
step is to send forward large and highly ornamented bills of performance
to be hung in the bar-room and the