Then followed more violent measures.

Persons suspected of being the projectors of the disaffection, were dragged before incensed judges, and after mock trials, were sentenced to imprisonment in the city jail.Messrs.Jordon and Osborne, (after they had established the Watchman paper,) were both imprisoned; the former twice, for five months each time.

At the close of the second term of imprisonment, Mr.Jordon was _tried for his life_, on the charge of having published _seditious matter_ in the Watchman.
The paragraph which was denominated '_seditious matter_' was this-- "Now that the member for Westmoreland (Mr.Beaumont) has come over to our side, we will, by a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, bring down the system by the run, knock off the fetters, and let the oppressed go free." On the day of Mr.J.'s trial, the court-room was thronged with colored men, who had armed themselves, and were determined, if the sentence of death were pronounced upon Mr.Jordon, to rescue him at whatever hazard.
It is supposed that their purpose was conjectured by the judges--at any rate, they saw fit to acquit Mr.J.and give him his enlargement.

The Watchman continued as fearless and _seditious_ as ever, until the Assembly were ultimately provoked to threaten some extreme measure which should effectually silence the agitators.

_Then_ Mr.Jordon issued a spirited circular, in which he stated the extent of the coalition among the colored people, and in a tone of defiance demanded the instant repeal of every restrictive law, the removal of every disability, and the extension of complete political equality; declaring, that if the demand were not complied with, the whole colored population would rise in arms, would proclaim freedom to their own slaves, instigate the slaves generally to rebellion, and then shout war and wage it, until _the streets of Kingston should run blood_.