, and
said he should like to see him; he wished he could get him. The Attorney
now says he would be safe; perhaps so from him; but there are here, as
elsewhere, hundreds of base cowardly scoundrels, who are willing in mobs
to hunt down any one against whom they conceive a prejudice; men who
dare not face a man alone, but who, backed by a mob, are willing to
assail an individual without knowing any thing of his guilt or
innocence.

Mr. B. then commented upon the character of the libel charged, and read
the first count. The first paragraph, he argued, contained no incendiary
language, unless it was to call slavery a crying abomination. He had not
known before that those words were calculated to stir up insurrection.
People were in the habit of hearing them daily from the pulpit, and he
never knew that they became seditious on account of it. The whole of
the matter was a controversy between the Anti-Slavery Society and the
Colonization Society, in relation to the expediency of their different
measures; and if any body could make any thing libellous, he must have
intellectual spectacles stronger than those with which Newton looked at
the stars. In the next paragraph slavery is called "unrighteous," which
was the great offence charged there. If this was a libel, he should show
that Arthur Tappan & Co. were not singular in the guilt of libelling;
for that fathers of the church in a slave state had called slavery
unrighteous too, and that some of the most eminent of our patriotic
Southern politicians had used far stronger and more exciting language.

This was all a controversy whether it was proper that provision should
be made that no slave should be emancipated unless provision was made
for sending him out of the country; and the writer contends that to make
sending a man out of this country, where he was born, a condition of
releasing him from bondage, in which he was forcibly held was a moral
absurdity; and to say so might be libellous, but he could not understand
how it should be so. Some of the jury would recollect when a discussion
of this topic took place in the Legislature of Maryland upon a proposed
law to the same effect, and they would remember that similar arguments
were used there.

The next passage was an extract showing the treatment of slaves in
another country, different from ours, where they have no law to protect
the persons of slaves; and could not apply to the condition of any
portion of our people. It