could not be libellous to have the book giving
the original journal of the traveller, and, if it were not, he did not
see how any evil or excitement could be produced by this extract.

He came next to the passage in the second count, which was an extract
of a speech, in which the orator tried to say something grand; but it
amounted to no more than had been said by slaveholders themselves; and
though the Attorney said it with an amusing emphasis, yet he would show
stronger language, to the same purport, in the writings of Mr. Jefferson
and of Mr. Archer, of Virginia, which had been approved by all who heard
or read them.

The whole argument used in the Anti-Slavery Reporter, he contended, was
mild and temperate, more so than could be expected, when the different
habits and modes of thought of the people from whence they came were
considered--a people who, from infancy upward, had heard nothing but the
accents of freedom, and had never lived in a country where they could
actually know the practical effects of our system of slavery. The
example was set them by the ablest writers here, and if we publish and
send to them similar writings, is it to be considered wonderful that, in
their discussions, they should adopt it. Their argument is, that slavery
may increase to be an evil which, by and by, cannot be remedied without
violence and bloodshed; and it is addressed to men who have the power
and the influence to apply a remedy now. The same arguments were
published here by the Colonization Society, which does honor to human
nature, and were founded on extreme necessity.

He read numerous extracts of books to show that similar expressions to
those in the libels charged, were not considered blameable if uttered
or published at the South; and denied the right of the District Attorney
to take particular words, here and there, and hold them up to fix the
character of the paper, without regard to the connexion in which they
were used; and he said that if Crandall was indictable for the language
and meaning of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, then every member of the
Colonization Society were liable to indictment.

[It may be proper to introduce one or two extracts, that the reader may
know the character of the papers read. The following are taken from an
address to the Colonization Society of Kentucky, by _R. J.
Breckenridge_.]

"There are some crimes so revolting in their nature, that the just
observance of the decencies of speech