In conjunction with this it has been, and will be, not less our aim, to render the miscellaneous literature necessary to the plan, such as every man of correct taste may deem worthy of such a work.

In our execution, in part, of this design, we have to acknowledge that by many of our political foes, we have been very fairly and even handsomely treated. On the great principle, that errors of opinion should be combatted by reason alone, and that all discussion tends to the promotion of truth, not a few have been sufficiently liberal as to wish us complete success in establishing such a work, and have had the magnanimity to discriminate between our doctrines and our literature, and to praise the one with the same candour that they opposed the other. Many, on the contrary, and in quarters where better might have been expected, have not hesitated to denounce us in advance; and, sparing the milder epithets of "Loco-Foco" and Jack Cade, have asserted we have promulgated doctrines, already, fit only for execration, and tending directly to the deeds of Marat, Robespierre, and Danton. Such critics can see no merit in the poetry of Bryant, or the prose of Hawthorne; and the principles advocated in this work, fortunately, are so accustomed to misrepresentation and abuse, that our friends are not likely to be frightened, by their agency, from maintaining them.

It is amusing that in this general denunciation, even the mechanical matters, of type, paper, engraving, &c., which it was made an especial object to render unimpeachable, by comparison with our compeers, have more than once been assailed with equal severity, and some who might have deemed it inexpedient to denounce our doctrines, have been unmeasured in their condemnation of the printers, engravers, binders, and paper makers, who aided and abetted them. Fortunately, in one case, as in the other, those disposed to inquire can judge for themselves; and we are not unwilling, by thus placing such accusations in juxtaposition with the accused, to afford all the fairest opportunity of judging. For our own parts, even were this species of opposition to succeed in annihilating the work, in the words of Burke, we will call to mind such accusations, and be comforted. From friends we have generally received a degree of favor far beyond any deserts which our work, as yet, has been able to exhibit, and though some portions of the Democratic press, while they have praised us, generally, with a kindness far too partial, do not seem fully alive to the great purposes the success of such a work must effect, we perceive, with pleasure, that in every quarter where coöperation was valuable, it has been freely tendered, and zealously afforded.

At a more advanced period of our career we hope to have occasion to speak, with congratulation, of effects produced. It remains only for us, at present, to say, that prospects of good are as wide as the field in which we have to labour, and are only to be marred by the inefficiency or incompetency of the workmen.