Excerpt from Letters: To Andrew T. Jusdon, Esq. And Others in Canteebury, Remonstrating With Them on Their Unjus and Unjustified Procedure Relative to Miss. Crandall and Her School for Colored Females

Andrew T.Judson, Esq.

Sir: - I left Canterbury, after the town-meeting on the 9th ult. grieved that so large a number of persons could be so completely misled by the art and influence of a few individuals, and ashamed that in Connecticut (which claims to be the most enlightened and moral State in our Union, ) a community of freemen could be found, who would thus yield themselves to be the instruments of such injustice and cruelty.

From your high official standing, Sir, both in the town and state, it was to have been expected that you would have endeavored to allay the popular excitement, and to persuade your fellow-citizens to act advisedly. So far from it, however, you were the prominent actor on the occasion, and exerted yourself beyond measure to heat the imaginations of your hearers, to enkindle their bitterest feelings against Miss Crandall and her friends, and to hurry them on to an immediate decision - a decision which can reflect no honor upon the town, and which, if it cannot be reversed, may indirectly affect the happiness of millions in our land.

I therefore take the liberty thus publicly to plead with you, and with your fellow-citizens.

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