_Henry King_ testified that about last June or July, he knew Crandall in
Georgetown, where he came and took an office as a botanist, and followed
that business.

_Key_ handed him a pamphlet, and asked if he had seen any like it;
stating, upon objection being made by Coxe, that his object was to show
that Crandall gave the witness such a paper to read.

_Coxe_ objected to the testimony, as furnishing no ground of inference
that the act of publication by giving the paper to a respectable white
free man, was intended to create excitement, or was the result of a
malicious intent.

_Key_ said he would connect this with other circumstances to show the
intent. It was proper evidence to go to the jury, and they must judge
what the intent really was.

_The Court_ ruled that the evidence was admissible; and,

_Henry King_ went on to testify: He was in Crandall's office in
Georgetown, some time in July last. Received from Dr. Crandall a
pamphlet similar to the one now shown him, called the "Anti-Slavery
Reporter." There was something written on it, but can't say what it
was. He left it at Linthicum's store. Some one took it away from the
store and it was lost.

_Judge Morsell._ Did Crandall make any remark, when you took the
pamphlet?

_Witness._ No. Witness was looking at the botanical preparations in the
office, and seeing this and other tracts on the subject of abolition
lying about, he took up one and remarked, "the latitude is too far south
for these things;" "they won't do here;" but, "by your leave, I will
take this and read it over." Crandall was at the time engaged in taking
out preparations of plants from a large trunk. There were three of these
pamphlets on the table, but don't know whether they were taken from
the trunk or not. Crandall used newspapers, or something like them, as
wrappers for the preserved plants. Witness is not a slaveholder himself.
Witness after looking over the pamphlet threw it on the desk in
Linthicum's store, and afterwards threw it under the counter. When the
excitement arose, looked for it and could not find it. Had thought
nothing about it till then. Did not remember what words were written
on the pamphlet. Crandall did not call his attention to the tracts.
He asked Crandall for the pamphlet, as a loan, and took it away with
Crandall's leave. Crandall never asked for it afterwards. He saw
something written on the pamphlet, and recollects that Crandall at his
examination in the jail