h to make a man runaway from
a country where there are such laws, and find refuge in some other.
Gentlemen, if in searching for stolen goods you find evidence of
counterfeiting, you may use it for the purpose of convicting the culprit
of either offence.

But the papers were safe in Dr. Crandall's trunk. Yes, all were there
and safe, but those taken out and circulated, exactly as the case would
have been had they been counterfeit bank notes, and not incendiary
pamphlets. Gentlemen, did he not give Mr. King one, because he thought
that he _would not_ mention it? And, gentlemen, would he not as likely
give to those who _could not_ tell? At every step in our community, he
meets such men; he is enjoined in the language of these papers, to give
them currency "in highways and by-ways." This man should be glad of the
opportunity, by public trial, to exonerate himself from the charges
against him. They are distinctly made--the testimony clearly laid
down--testimony, in my opinion, ample for his conviction. There are two
questions in this case: are the libels charged criminal?--are they
proved to have been published by the traverser? I call your attention
to the libels and to their tendency. The Colonization Society published
them only to denounce them. The Colonization Society only contemplates
free negroes, and has nothing to do with slavery.

Mr. Key here explained the difference between the papers read by the
traverser's counsel and those charged in the indictment, and showed that
the Kentucky synod, the grand jury of our District, &c. were for gradual
emancipation by the whites, and not violence by the blacks, &c. He
thought having a number of these printed libels stronger proof against
the traverser than having only one written; commented upon these papers
coming through the post office with only one cent postage, as strong
evidence that they were sent in here; upon the fact that none of his
witnesses testified to his character or pursuits within the last two
years; upon the improbability of such a man as Crandall was represented
to be, of high character as a man and a physician, leaving Peekskill
to go botanizing merely. Mr. K. here commented upon the inflammatory
character of the libel alluding to the _colonial_, and, as he contended,
the _general_ system of slavery. Mr. K. here read again from the
pamphlet, and then added: I am accused of being emphatic; I confess my
blood boils when I read the closing sentence of this