iends could ever
have.

"The next day we gave the required bonds. Miss Crandall was
released from the cell of the murderer, returned home, and
quietly resumed the duties of her school until she should be
summoned as a culprit into court, there to be tried by the
infamous '_Black Law of Connecticut_.' And, as we expected, so
soon as the evil tidings could be carried in that day, before
Professor Morse had given to Rumor her telegraphic wings, it was
known all over the country and the civilized world, that an
excellent young lady had been imprisoned as a criminal--yes, put
into a murderer's cell--in the State of Connecticut, for opening
a school for the instruction of colored girls. The comments that
were made upon the deed in almost all the newspapers were far
from grateful to the feelings of her persecutors. Even many who,
under the same circumstances, would probably have acted as badly
as Messrs. A. T. Judson & Co., denounced their procedure as
'un-Christian, inhuman, anti-Democratic, base, mean.'

"On the 23d of August, 1833, the first trial of Miss Crandall
was had in Brooklyn, the seat of the county of Windham, Hon.
Joseph Eaton presiding at the county court.

"The prosecution was conducted by Hon. A. T. Judson, Jonathan A.
Welch, Esq., and I. Bulkley, Esq. Miss Crandall's counsel was
Hon. Calvin Goddard, Hon. W. W. Elsworth, and Henry Strong, Esq.

"The judge, somewhat timidly, gave it as his opinion 'that the
law was constitutional and obligatory on the people of the
State.'

"The jury, after an absence of several hours, returned into
court, not having agreed upon a verdict. They were instructed and
sent out again, and again a third time, in vain; they stated to
the judge that there was no probability that they could ever
agree. Seven were for conviction and five for acquittal, so they
were discharged.

"The second trial was on the 3d of October, before Judge Daggett
of the Supreme Court, who was a strenuous advocate of the black
law. His influence with the jury was overpowering, insisting in
an elaborate and able charge that the law was constitutional,
and, without much hesitation, the verdict was given against Miss
Crandall. Her counsel at once filed a bill of exceptions, and
took an appeal to the Court of Errors