"Mr. Judson’s Circular,” from the Genius of Temperance , in The Unionist 1:2:3, column 4

MR. JUDSON’S CIRCULAR— We have seen a Circular written by Andrew T. Judson, Canterbury, in vindication of his conduct towards Miss Crandall, and in favor of the new law, under which she was imprisoned. It is a very lame affair: much more so than we should have expected from a lawyer, aspiring to a seat in Congress. He does not even make a plausible defence. The very plea must insure condemnation among republicans. Miss Crandall’s school, according to Mr. Judson, is to be legislated down— not because colored people are not human beings—“created free and equal”—not because they are not entitled to education— not because the object is undesirable— not because Miss Crandall was incompetent to teach them— not because the town was in danger (as had been pretended) of being overrun with paupers, but because Miss Crandall is an abolitionist! A fine TEST ACT, truly! Why not because she is a Baptist? A large portion of the Baptists, and of other sects, we trust, are rapidly embracing the heresy against which “His Grace, the” [American] “Lord Bishop of Canterbury” has fulminated his papal bull. And so the abolitionists are legally disqualified from school teaching, are they? From what will they next be debarred? From preaching? From medical and from legal practice? From buying and selling? as rumor even now reports of Canterbury, and as the Revelator of Patmos has predicted, of the latter days?”  (Rev.xiii.17.)

Mr. Judson pleads in favor of Canterbury legislation, that the people of other towns, would be as unwilling as those of Canterbury, to see a similar school established, and then to strengthen this, by another plea, he complains because Miss Crandall did not accept his offer to remove her location! This savors of the Irish, as well as of the Romish bull! Much in the same vein of logic, Mr. Judson defends the Connecticut law, by remarking that schools might be established in other states! Above all, the present law of Connecticut, against the free and unrestrained education of the colored people, Mr. Judson argues, cannot be bad, BECAUSE a former law of that state, (as yet unrepealed—a law,—he might have said—enacted when all the people of Connecticut were “abolitionists,” and ere the cunning device of Colonizationism was dreamed of)—is a good one and contains contrary characteristics!”

“A Daniel! still I say, a second Daniel!”

Mr. Judson must certainly be sent to Congress! – Genius of Temperance