n work could not be carried on without the cart-whip. He
moreover labored hard to convince me that the flogging did not injure
the health of the negroes. I also told him of the exceeding immorality
and licentiousness which I had witnessed; mentioning, in substance, the
facts previously detailed. He replied that "that was a thing which they
must wink at." If a man in manners so much the gentleman, and in other
respects so estimable, was necessarily led to countenance or wink at
the enormities I have feebly attempted to describe, what, I ask, is to
be expected from its subordinate administrators who are continually
exposed to the demoralizing influences of slavery? what, indeed, but
the frightful wickedness and cruelty which are its actual fruits?"--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.

2d. The second count charges the publication of another libel,
containing among other things, in one part thereof, the following
words, viz: "Our plan of emancipation is simply this--to promulgate
the doctrine of human rights in high places and low places, and all
places where there are human beings--to whisper it in chimney corners,
and to proclaim it from the house tops, yea, from the mountain tops--to
pour it out like water from the pulpit and the press--to raise it up
with all the force of the inner man from infancy to grey hairs--to
give line upon line, precept upon precept, till it forms one of the
foundation principles and parts indestructible of the public soul."

And in another part thereof, the following, viz: "I (meaning the said
Crandall) am not unaware that my remarks may be regarded by many as
dangerous and exceptionable; that I may be regarded as a fanatic for
quoting the language of eternal truth; and denounced as an incendiary
for maintaining in the spirit, as well as the letter, the doctrines
of American Independence. But if such are the consequences of a simple
performance of duty, I shall not regard them. If my feeble appeal but
reaches the hearts of any who are now slumbering in iniquity; if it
shall have power given it to shake down one stone from that foul temple
where the blood of human victims is offered to the moloch of slavery;
if, under Providence, it can break one fetter from off the image of
God, and enable one suffering African

------------To feel
The weight of human mise