de to the fact that the sincerity and personal excellence of the
abolitionists had been warmly acknowledged by the amiable Secretary of
the Colonization Society, and by one of its most distinguished members
and friends, Mr. Gerrit Smith.

But the District Attorney denounced the Abolition Societies and
Dr. Crandall, whom he alleged to be a member of the American Abolition
Society. This assertion was unsupported by testimony, and untrue in
fact. One of the constables, indeed, had testified that Crandall, after
his arrest, admitted that he was a member of that society; but this was
disproved by all the other testimony in the case.

Mr. Coxe, without defending the Abolition Societies, here undertook to
prove, from various documentary evidence, that there was, after all, but
very little difference between the sentiments and objects of the
colonizationists and the abolitionists.

In conclusion, Mr. Coxe remarked, that if any the smallest injury had
resulted from the traverser's sojourn in this District, it was not his
fault. He was innocently occupied in professional pursuits, and was
quietly pursuing the even tenor of his way. Whatever excitement and
injury had grown out of his visit here was solely attributable to the
illegal course taken by the prosecutor in procuring his arrest and the
seizure of his papers, which were harmlessly reposing in his trunk.

With these remarks, and his thanks for the patient hearing afforded him
by the jury, Mr. Coxe submitted the case, with entire confidence, to
their hands.

_Mr. F. S. Key._ I consider this one of the most important cases ever
tried here; I wish the prisoner every advantage of a fair trial. It is
a case to try the question, whether our institutions have any means of
legal defence against a set of men of most horrid principles, whose
means of attack upon us are insurrection, tumult, and violence. The
traverser defends himself by justifying the libels. We are told that
they are harmless--that they have no tendency to produce the horrid
results which we deprecate. We have been told that _this_ community
has not been endangered. The Emancipator has been read, the extracts
from it justified, this prosecution scouted. If such publications
are justifiable, then are we, indeed, at the tender mercy of the
Abolitionist, and the sooner we make terms of capitulation with him the
better. What does he propose for the slave? Immediate emancipation. In
one instant the chains of the sla