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Title: The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection.
Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements
of the Court and the Counsel.

Author: Unknown

Release Date: February 26, 2009 [EBook #28197]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

This ebook retains the spelling and punctuation variations of the
original text published in 1836. A few corrections have been made
where inadvertent typographical errors were suspected. Details of
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THE TRIAL

OF

REUBEN CRANDALL, M. D.

CHARGED WITH

PUBLISHING AND CIRCULATING

SEDITIOUS AND INCENDIARY PAPERS, &c.

IN THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

WITH THE INTENT OF

EXCITING SERVILE INSURRECTION.

CAREFULLY REPORTED,

AND COMPILED FROM THE WRITTEN STATEMENTS OF THE COURT
AND THE COUNSEL.

BY A MEMBER OF THE BAR.

WASHINGTON CITY.
PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS.
1836.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1836, in the
Clerk's office of the District of Columbia.

NOTICE.

THE TRIAL OF CRANDALL presents the first case of a man charged with
endeavoring to excite insurrection among slaves and the free colored
population that was ever brought before a judicial tribunal. It lasted
ten days before the whole Court, and was as closely contested as any
trial on record, by the counsel on both sides. Every point of law was
fully and strenuously argued, and carefully co