The court reserved its decision, which was never given.

Finding that there were defects in the information prepared by the attorney for the State, the indictment was quashed.

Because of subsequent attempts to destroy the building, Mr.May and Miss Crandall decided to abandon the school.[1] [Footnote 1: Jay, _An Inquiry, etc._, p.

26.] It resulted then that even in those States to which free blacks had long looked for sympathy, the fear excited by fugitives from the more reactionary commonwealths had caused northerners so to yield to the prejudices of the South that they opposed insuperable obstacles to the education of Negroes for service in the United States.

The colored people, as we shall see elsewhere, were not allowed to locate their manual labor college at New Haven[1] and the principal of the Noyes Academy at Canaan, New Hampshire, saw his institution destroyed because he decided to admit colored students.[2] These fastidious persons, however, raised no objection to the establishment of schools to prepare Negroes to expatriate themselves under the direction of the American Colonization Society.[3] [Footnote 1: _Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color_, p.