egradation cannot
extinguish. The slave will become conscious, sooner or later, of his
strength--his physical superiority--and will exert it. His torch will be
at the threshold, and his knife at the throat of the planter. Horrible
and indiscriminate will be the vengeance. Where then will be the pride,
the beauty, and the chivalry of the South. The smoke of her torment will
rise upward, like a thick cloud, visible over the whole earth."

3d. The third count charged the defendant with publishing twelve other
libels, in which are represented and exhibited "several disgusting
prints and pictures of white men in the act of inflicting, with whips,
cruel and inhuman beatings and stripes upon young and helpless and
unresisting black children; and inflicting with other instruments,
cruel and inhuman violence upon slaves, and in a manner not fit and
proper to be seen and represented; calculated and intended to excite
the good people of the United States in said county to violence against
the holder of slaves in said county as aforesaid, and calculated and
intended to excite the said slaves in said county, to violence and
rebellion against their said masters in said county; in contempt of the
laws, to the disturbance of the public peace, to the evil example of all
others, and against the peace and government of the United States."

All these counts contained averments that at the time of the publication
of these libels, the citizens of the United States residing in the
county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, were lawfully
authorized to hold slaves as property, and many of them did so hold
them--and that many free persons of color also reside in the District;
and that the defendant, unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously,
contriving and intending to traduce, vilify, and bring into hatred
and contempt, among the citizens of the United States, the laws and
government of the United States in the county of Washington as duly
established and in force, and to inflame and excite the people of the
United States to resist and oppose and disregard the laws and Government
aforesaid, and the rights of the proprietors of slaves in the said
county, and to inflame and excite to violence, against the said
proprietors of the said slaves, not only the ignorant and ill disposed
among the free people of the United States and the free persons of color
in the said county, but also the slaves; and to produce among the said
slaves and free p