Miss Crandall was 'committed' to take
her trial at the next session of the Supreme Court at Brooklyn,
in August. A messenger was at once dispatched by the party
opposed to Miss Crandall to Brooklyn, to inform Mr. May, as her
friend, of the result of the trial, stating that she was in the
hands of the sheriff, and would be put in jail unless he or some
of her friends would 'give bonds' for her in a certain sum."

The denouement may be related most appropriately in the language of
Mr. May:

"I calmly told the messenger that there were gentlemen enough in
Canterbury whose bond for that amount would be as good or better
than mine, and I should leave it for them to do Miss Crandall
that favor. 'But,' said the young man, 'are you not her friend?'
'Certainly,' I replied, 'too sincerely her friend to give relief
to her enemies in their present embarrassment, and I trust you
will not find any one of her friends, or the patrons of her
school, who will step forward to help them any more than myself.'
'But, sir,' he cried, 'do you mean to allow her to be put in
jail?' 'Most certainly,' was my answer, 'if her persecutors are
unwise enough to let such an outrage be committed.' He turned
from me in blank surprise, and hurried back to tell Mr. Judson
and the justices of his ill success.

"A few days before, when I first heard of the passage of the law,
I had visited Miss Crandall with my friend, Mr. George W. Benson,
and advised with her as to the course she and her friends ought
to pursue when she should be brought to trial. She appreciated at
once and fully the importance of leaving her persecutors to show
to the world how base they were, and how atrocious was the law
they had induced the Legislature to enact--a law, by the force of
which a woman might be fined and imprisoned as a felon in the
State of Connecticut for giving instruction to colored girls. She
agreed that it would be best for us to leave her in the hands of
those with whom the law originated, hoping that, in their
madness, they would show forth all their hideous features.

"Mr. Benson and I, therefore, went diligently around to all who
he knew were friendly to Miss Crandall and her school, and
counselled them by no means to give bonds to keep her from
imprisonment, because nothing would expose