ABSTRACT
However honest the intention, and useful the purpose, of those who write for the abolition of popular error, there are few persons more liable to be accused of sinister motives, or at least assailed with suspicion. If you do not go with the popular opinion, that opinion goes against you; and if you would control, or in some measure direct it, and would study to be fair and reasonable in argument, not loading those with whom you differ with abuse, there is another assortment of individuals who accuse you of insincerity. The author of these letters is accused by certain persons, of being a scribbler hired by the enemies of popular rights: while others assert, and by the assertion have scared some Newsmen from selling this publication, that it is a disguised attempt at instructing the physical force men in the use of arms, and the performance of street tactics.
