Under this act Miss Crandall was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned.
Having eliminated free discussion from the South, the Southern States sought to accomplish the same object in the North.

In pursuance of a resolution of the Legislature, the Governor of Georgia offered a reward of five thousand dollars to any one who should arrest, bring to trial, and prosecute to conviction under the laws of Georgia the editor of the Liberator.

R.G.Williams, publishing agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, was indicted by a grand jury of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and Governor Gayle of Alabama made a requisition on Governor Marcy of New York for his extradition.

Williams had never been in Alabama.

His offense consisted in publishing in the New York Emancipator a few rather mild utterances against slavery.
Governor McDuffie of South Carolina in an official message declared that slavery was the very corner-stone of the republic, adding that the laboring population of any country, "bleached or unbleached," was a dangerous element in the body politic, and predicting that within twenty-five years the laboring people of the North would be virtually reduced to slavery.