science,
gentlemen, you think the traverser innocent, acquit him. Judge of these
libels--the words--the meaning--the tendency--read their endorsement
"please read and circulate" in the traverser's handwriting--look at
these pictures!--hear his admission, "I gave them to a man who I thought
would not tell on me." There are twelve or thirteen of them brought
here by him unaccounted for; hear his prevarications in the jail and
elsewhere: and if he is an innocent man, cruelly imprisoned under an
illegal warrant, and these vile, calumniatory libels, are actually this
_innocent_, _persecuted_ gentleman's _property_--_stolen_ from him--then
gentlemen return him his property and let him go free. It is with you,
gentlemen; I ask of you but to do your conscientious duty.

* * * * *

The jury retired, and, after a short deliberation, agreed upon a verdict
of NOT GUILTY. After which they separated, and returned their verdict
into Court the next morning.

Transcriber's Note

Some of the words in this text were verified by referencing the document
"The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D., charged with publishing seditious
libels, by circulating the publications of the American Anti-Slavery
Society, before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, held at
Washington, in April, 1836, occupying the court the period of ten days."
(New-York: H. R. Piercy, 1836)

The following corrections have been made to this text:

Page 6: Removed stray quote marks (If a man in manners)

Page 10: Changed choses to chooses (to every body who chooses)

Page 14: Changed posession to possession (traverser's possession)

Page 18: Added missing end punctuation (Question by Key.)

Page 19: Changed Crrndall's to Crandall's (Dr. Crandall's reply)

Page 23: Changed did'nt to didn't (he didn't know which)

Page 28: Added missing word 'to' (I have to say to them)

Page 29: Added missing quote marks ("I hope I may be excused)

Page 30: Removed stray quote marks (run her hull under.)

Page 31: Changed desarts to deserts (its wide-spread deserts)

Page 31: Removed duplicate word 'as' (so far as he had seen him)

Page 34: Changed did to didn't (didn't know of any with writing)
(Verified by referencing the document mentioned above.)

Page 44: Changed posssession to possession (wrested from the possession)

Page 48: Changed gentlemen's to gentleman's (_persecuted_ gentleman'