New York Herald (NY)
24 August 1857
ANOTHER LIBERTY OF SPEECH CASE in VIRGINIA. --
The Brentsville Journal says that on Wednesday a resident of Prince William county, Va., named Crawford, was committed to jail by Justice Kankey, charged with declaring "that he was an abolitionist, that he believed a negro as good as he was if he behaved himself, and maintaining, by speaking, that persons have not the right of property in slaves under the law." This is the second case of the kind which has occurred in this county, and only the third in the State.
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