l, and,
in fact, reminded him that he and Mr. Jeffers might be called on as
witnesses. Witness recollected that, during the examination, there was
a paper produced by Dr. Crandall, who was too much agitated to read it.
One of the magistrates attempted to read it, but don't know whether it
was read or not. Dr. Crandall was much agitated. There was a great
excitement outside the jail, and much alarm in it. Dr. Crandall was
arrested on the 10th, and examined on the 11th of August.

Witness remembers that there was a conversation in the hack, as they
were coming from Georgetown to the jail, in which the following question
was asked Dr. Crandall:--"Don't you think it would be rather dangerous,
at the present time, to set all the negroes free?" Don't recollect the
precise words of the reply, but he inferred from it----

_The Court_ interposed. We don't want your inferences, Mr. Robertson;
give us the facts, if you please.

Well, if it please the Court, continued Mr. Robertson, my impression was,
at the time, that Dr. Crandall's reply amounted to this--that he was for
abolition, without regard to consequences. Mr. Jeffers asked the Doctor
if he did not think that abolition would produce amalgamation and also
endanger the security of the whites. The doctor did not object to these
consequences. He thought the negroes ought to be as free as we were.

_M. Jeffers_, constable, deposed that he saw some pamphlets endorsed
"please read and circulate" in Dr. Crandall's office. Witness, when he
entered the office, said, "we want all your incendiary tracts, Doctor."
Witness looked into a large box and saw the pamphlets.

The box was without cover, and the pamphlets lay in a corner. At his
lodgings, more pamphlets were found. Don't know how many there were
in the box. Those in the trunk, at the house, were nearly all new.
Dr. Crandall explained that they had stopped the Emancipator and sent
the pamphlets in lieu of it. Think he said they were sent around in a
vessel, in a box. Witness asked him what he was doing with so many of
them. The reply was that he had procured them for information. Don't
recollect that any of the botanical specimens were in newspapers. He
said they had stopped sending papers weekly and sent them monthly.
Witness asked what he was doing with so many of the same numbers at the
same time, to which he replied that they all came in the box, and that
he wanted them merely for information. Witness looked into, and no