so long the mind of the nation, as a nation, will remain wholly uncharged on the question - this result is the very nature of things inevitable yet this clap of men are the very last ones whom abolitionists seem to wish to convey. , , The idea of giving to the people at large on this question seems to me utterly futile. They most of them, have neither time nor inclination for such investigations, nor any confidence in their own capacity to decide such a question rightly. They investigate nothing of this nature where their own rights are at stake, and they never will do it for the sake of the slaves. There are twenty, and probably fifty, or even an hundred men, who would march up to the cannon's mouth in defence [sic] of the principles of my argument, if the lawyers all told them they were sound, where there is one who would read the argument for himself, and make up an opinion that he would dare to stand and fight for. , , Mr. Tappan's objection - that the lawyers would not read the argument, if it were sent to them - is simply ridiculous, (if the argument has any of the merits which he himself concedes to it). The southern lawyers would all read it at once� because the question is a vital one to their section of the country and when they should have read it, they would see that that was the only political abolition in from which they had any thing to fear. They would therefore give their whole attention to it, and never waste another thought or breath upon Free Soilism, Garrisonism, or any of that kind of harmless stuff. These movements at the south on the question, would compel northen lawyers and politicians to give their attention to it. No doubt many old lawyers at the North, who were full of business, would not read it at first. But if a good bound volume were sent to them, they would not throw it away, but set it in their libraries, and when the question should come to be seriously agitated by others, they would read it. But most northen lawyers would read it without much delay. Young lawyers especially who have leisure, and are too poor to buy books (as most of them are) would snatch at a book that was sent to them, and read it at once. They would talk of it among themselves and to the older ones - and finally it would be read by all. , , As evidence of the effect, that would be produced upon the minds of lawyers, I send you a Congressional Globe, dated Decr. 6, 1856, containing two speeches by Senator Brown of Mississippi, in which he alludes to my argument. In one of them he says of it, in reply to Wilson of Massachusetts. , , "The Senator from Massachusetts now comes forward and indorses my declaration, that a Mr. Spooner, a man of position their, has not only written, but published, a book to the country, making an argument in favor of the constitutional power of Congress, not only to interfere with, but to abolish slavery in the southern States of the Union. The Senator did not say, what I am willing to say myself, that the book is ingeniously written. No mere simpleton could ever have drawn such an argument.