uld get away. Crandall then
continued home with the witness, and exerted himself with as much zeal
as any one could to break up the school.

_Dr. Sewall_ testified that the traverser came to him some time in the
spring to get a license to practice in the District, and showed him two
letters of high recommendation. He had some conversation with Crandall
upon subjects of science and upon his knowledge of medicine and surgery,
and formed a high opinion of his talents and acquirements. He advised
the defendant by no means to abandon the practice of his profession
for entering upon botany or chemistry, but if he could do that without
interfering with practice, it might do; he thought him too well
qualified in the profession to give it up. Crandall also showed the
witness a diploma, which was regularly signed, and he gave a verbal
license to practice, and said at the meeting of the Board he would have
a regular license made out. He had no reason to believe, from his
conversation with the prisoner, that he had any object in view except
the pursuit of his profession. All the stories that he had talked upon
the subject of abolition with witness, and given him Anti-Slavery
papers, were mere idle talk.

_Mr. Howard_ said he was sheriff of Winchester county, where Crandall
lived, and identified the handwriting of signatures to a letter of
recommendation which Crandall brought with him, and which was allowed in
evidence. All the signers were respectable men. Witness thinks he should
have known if any Anti-Slavery Society existed there--but he knew of
none. He also remembered that Crandall delivered lectures on chemistry
there, and he attended them.

_Mr. Ward_, Representative from the district where Crandall resided,
knew that he had lived there seven or eight years, and that he had a
high reputation as a respectable man, and a good physician.

_Mr. Austin_ was now a resident in Georgetown, but formerly lived in
Peekskill, where he knew the prisoner, who lived in his family three
years. He came then in consequence of having raised up Mrs. Austin
from a dangerous sickness. Witness was a lawyer, and knew Crandall's
reputation to be high as a physician and surgeon, far and near. Witness
was President of a Temperance Society, and Crandall was Secretary; he
did not know of any Anti-Slavery Society, and did not know or believe
that the prisoner belonged to any, or had any thing to do with them.
Crandall came on at his request to accom