he impending evil, and appointing the civil
authority and select-men a committee to wait upon 'the person
contemplating the establishment of said school, and persuade her,
if possible, to abandon the project.'

"The resolutions were advocated by Rufus Adams, Esq., and Hon.
Andrew T. Judson, who was then the most prominent man of the
town, and a leading politician in the State, and much talked of
as the Democratic candidate for governor, and was a
representative in Congress from 1835 to 1839, when he was elected
judge of the United States District Court, which position he held
until his death in 1853, adjudicating, among other causes, the
libel of the 'Amistad' and the fifty-four Africans on board.
After his address on this occasion, Mr. May, in company with Mr.
Arnold Buffum, a lecturing agent of the New England Anti-Slavery
Society, applied for permission to speak in behalf of Miss
Crandall, but their application was violently opposed, and the
resolutions being adopted, the meeting was declared, by the
moderator, adjourned.

"Mr. May at once stepped upon the seat where he had been sitting,
and rapidly vindicated Miss Crandall, replying to some of the
misstatements as to her purposes and the character of her
expected pupils, when he gave way to Mr. Buffum, who had spoken
scarcely five minutes before the trustees of the church ordered
the house to be vacated and the doors to be shut. There was then
no alternative but to yield.

"Two days afterward Mr. Judson called on Mr. May, with whom he
had been on terms of a pleasant acquaintance, not to say of
friendship, and expressed regret that he had applied certain
epithets to him; and went on to speak of the disastrous effect on
the village from the establishment of 'a school for nigger
girls.' Mr. May replied that his purpose was, if he had been
allowed to do so, to state at the town meeting Miss Crandall's
proposition to sell her house in the village at its fair
valuation, and retire to some other part of the town. To this Mr.
Judson replied: 'Mr. May, we are not merely opposed to the
establishment of that school in Canterbury, we mean there shall
not be such a school set up anywhere in the State.'

"Mr. Judson continued, declaring that the colored people could
never rise from their