Book/Printed Material The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by circulating the publications of the American Anti-Slavery Society, before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, held at Washington, in April, 1836, occupying the court the period of ten days
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Image 1 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … THE TRIAL OF REUBEN CRANDALL, M. D. CHARGED WITH PUBLISHING SEDITIOUS LIBELS, BY CIRCULATING THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. BEFORE THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, HELD AT…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 2 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1836, By Reuben Crandall, M. D., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 3 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … TRIAL OF REUBEN CRANDALL. As the Clerk was proceeding to empannel the jury in this case, and called James Owen, Mr. Bradley asked if he had formed or expressed any opinion of…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 4 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 4 remain in this his native land, that you and we have. Assuming this as an incontrovertible truth, we hold it self-evident that they have as good right to deport us to…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 5 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 5 —To feel The weight of human misery less, and glide Ungroaning to the tomb— I shall not have written in vain; my conscience will be satisfied. Far be it from me…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 6 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 6 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…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 7 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 7 undertook to state how he came to be here with these obnoxious and inflammatory papers; but he would prove the facts, and show very different and contradictory accounts. He would show…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 8 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 8 Second , that the publication to individuals, by whom and through whom others would not be affected injuriously, is not evidence of the malicious intent, charged in the indictment; and, Third…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 9 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 9 Coxe. I mean that the paper, whatever be its character, having been given to an intelligent white free man, would not show an intent to excite another class of people. The…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 10 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 10 Answer. No. Key. The best evidence of intent is to be found in the character of the paper. The objection is made to prevent the jury from seeing the paper. The…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 11 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 11 himself—for the purpose of reading, was evidence of any malicious publication. And upon the ground of insufficiency of proof of such publication as the defendant was charged with, the reading of…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 12 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 12 distributed among the people, nobody knows how. Is not that evidence, that he published this one with a bad intent? Coxe. I say it is no evidence. That he had them…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 13 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 13 Key asked witness, if he recollected any admission on the part of Dr. Crandall, that he brought them to this District. Bradley raised the question whether it was competent to put…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 14 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 14 representative from Virginia might be indicted, who told him he had reserved files of these papers and had lent them to his friends, and let them distribute them. He went on…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 15 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 15 the publication, in this District, of any copies of the libels charged in the first and second counts of the indictment; that if he shall have given any evidence tending to…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 16 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 16 far as sending them abroad within that state from the printing office and putting them into the hands of others, amounts to a publication; but this is no publication within this…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 17 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 17 restrain any man in this country in his own, or in adopting the moral or religious opinions of others, if he please: it is criminal only when he attempts to propagate…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 18 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 18 shall be had of their publication; this is possible, almost probable, if his zeal in the cause be so great as has been attempted to be proved; then might he not…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 19 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 19 published them—yet, if I am to take the whole of the testimony in the case, I should be compelled to say, that in withholding the other pamphlets from the view of…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 20 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 20 for a court to instruct a jury, from what circumstances or facts inferences of guilt or malice may be drawn. It is saying, Gentlemen of the Jury, such and such a…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 21 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 21 collection, and I was glad to get him off as quick as we could, for fear he would suffer some injury there. I was not mistaken, for a considerable number of…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 22 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 22 of papers on the table in the office. He had botanical specimens—I don't recollect as any were in newspapers. He remarked that they had stopped sending weekly and sent monthly. I…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 23 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 23 with “read and circulate” on it. I never saw the prisoner write; but after I saw the pamphlet Mr. King had, I went to Mr. Cruikshanks, where there was a prospectus…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 24 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 24 statement, or whether he made his motion first and gave the statement in support of it; or the contrary. Key postponed the reading and went on to introduce further testimony. B.…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 25 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 25 upon them. I did not think what he said a contradiction. Dr. Crandall admitted the words were in his handwriting; but he said they were put on some time before. That…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 26 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 26 a great many people in it, and he might have said a great many things I did not hear. I had no knowledge of any difference between the pamphlets at the…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 27 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 27 To a Juror. He was put in jail the day before the examination: he was arrested on the 10th, and examined on the 11th. William Robinson , again. I have no…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 28 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 28 evidence might be given, that Crandall had in his possession copies which had been published in the District by somebody.] Thruston dissented from the majority of the Court, for the reasons…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 29 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 29 The Court permitted the pictures to be given in evidence, and shown to the jury, but refused to suffer the pamphlets attached to the pictures to be read to the jury…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 30 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 30 the south, for the people would not bear it; and he stated, as the witness inferred, that it was the object of abolitionists to get the south to combine with the…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 31 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 31 began. I do not recollect exactly when he came. It was not earlier than May; it was the last of May or the first of June. He brought letters of high…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 32 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 32 or June. When he came again, he had been back to Peekskill—as I understood, to the place where he resided in New York, and had returned to live here. Ward B.…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 33 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 33 went towards the box. I don't recollect as I asked for pamphlets there or not. Dr. Crandall took hold of the box and pulled it round. I found the pamphlets. While…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 34 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 34 Mr. Wilson. I was present at the time spoken of by Mr. Gaither. There was a considerable crowd about the shop. I remember one of the officers came to the door…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
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Image 35 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 35 practise in Georgetown. I told him the certificates were not sufficient to obtain a license. He said he had a diploma, which he afterwards brought. (Witness recognised the diploma in court.)…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 36 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 36 children were always sick when travelling. I solicited by letter that Dr. C. should come on with them. He did come, and when he got here was going immediately back; but…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 37 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 37 of the way. He consented. Some of his magazines and papers were in an old trunk; but he had some medicines in the closet, which I wished to put into the…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 38 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 38 the evidence. The defendant's counsel objected to any thing being read in argument to the jury which had not been read when the pamphlets were offered in evidence. But the Court…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 39 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 39 and moral, and had in his possession, and used in the preparation of his botanical specimens numerous papers; Telegraphs, Metropolitans, Baltimore, New York, and Boston newspapers, and last, not least, the…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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Image 40 of The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by … 40 made this the burden of their address, as containing conclusive proof of an admission that he had circulated a dozen here. Let us examine this. The magistrates understood him to admit…- Contributor: Crandall, Reuben - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- Date: 1836
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- The trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. : charged with publishing seditious libels, by circulating the publications of the American Anti-Slavery Society, before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, held at Washington, in April, 1836, occupying the court the period of ten days
Names
- Crandall, Reuben, 1805?-1838
- United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)
- John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New-York : H.R. Piercy, 1836.
Headings
- - Crandall, Reuben,--1805?-1838--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Trials (Seditious libel)--Washington (D.C.)
- - Slavery--Washington (D.C.)
- - American Anti-Slavery Society
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- - Checklist Amer. imprints 36950
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- 62 p. ; 23 cm.
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- KF223.C683 C683 1836
- AC901 .B3 vol. 39, no. 5
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- 18013204
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- Crandall, Reuben
- John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia)