mail-bags were robbed in Charleston in 1835, _I know_ that the robbers were very careful to select a few copies of each of the publications _before_ they made the bonfire, and that these were handed round in a private way through the city, so that they were _extensively read_. This fact I had from a friend of mine who was in Charleston at the time, and _read_ the publications himself. My relations also wrote me word, that they had seen and read them. In order to show that our discussions and publications have already produced a great effect upon many individuals in the slave States, I subjoin the following detail of facts and testimony now in my possession. My sister, S. M. Grimké, has just received a letter from a Southerner residing in the far South, in which he says, ‘On the 4th of July, the friends of the oppressed met and contributed six or eight dollars, to obtain some copies of Gerrit Smith’s letter, and some other pamphlets for our own benefit and that of the vicinity. The leaven, we think, is beginning to work, and we hope that it will ere long purify the whole mass of corruption.’ An intelligent member of the Methodist Church, who resides in North Carolina, was recently in the city of New York, and told the editor of Zion’s Watchman, that ‘our publications were read with great interest at the South--that there was great curiosity there to see them.’ A bookseller also in one of the most southern States, only a few months ago, ordered a package of our publications. And within a very short time, an influential slaveholder from the far South, who called at the Anti-Slavery Office in New York, said he had had misgivings on the subject ever since the formation of the American Society--that he saw some of our publications _at the South_ three years ago, and is now convinced and has emancipated his slaves.