It was no use, persecution could not cow the noble prisoner into submission to the infamous statute.

In her emergency truth raised up friends who rallied about her in the unparalleled contest which raged around her person and her school.

There was no meanness or maliciousness to which her enemies did not stoop to crush and ruin her and her cause.

"The newspapers of the county and of the adjoining counties teemed with the grossest misrepresentations, and the vilest insinuations," says Mr.May, "against Miss Crandall, her pupils, and her patrons; but for the most part, peremptorily refused us any room in their columns to explain our principles and purposes, or to refute the slanders they were circulating." Four or five times within two years she was forced into court to defend her acts against the determined malignity of men who stood high in the Connecticut Church and State.

The shops in the town boycotted her, the churches closed their doors to her and her pupils.
Public conveyances refused to receive them, and physicians to prescribe for them.