The excitement in the Court room, when the names of my three witnesses were called, was most intense, and when it subsided, Mr. Taylor was put upon the stand, and testified as follows:-- _Question._ Was you a teacher in the Christ Church Sunday-school? _Answer._ For the white children I was, and the school was held in the church. _Q._ Did you never visit the lecture room? _A._ I had nothing to do with the school that was kept there. _Q._ Did you never distribute books to the negro children of that school? _A._ I attended the library of the school for white children. _Q._ Did you not instruct colored children to read from those books? _A._ I did not. Mr. Taylor was not cross-examined by the Prosecuting Attorney, and I allowed him to take his seat, and called Mr. John Williams, Attorney, and Clerk of the Court. This gentleman took the stand with a pallid countenance, and quivering lip, evidently extremely troubled by the position in which he found himself placed. My benevolent feelings would not allow him to convict himself or his amiable daughter, and I therefore asked him a few unimportant questions, and dismissed him. I then called Lawyer Sharp, who testified as follows:-- _Q._ Were you a teacher in the school for colored children, held in Christ’s Church Lecture room? _A._ No, madam. _Q._ Did you not attend the Sabbath-school held there for the instruction of negro children? _A._ I went there, occasionally, and lectured to them. _Q._ Did you not distribute books among them? _A._ _The ladies had all to do with that!_ _Q._ When you visited that school, did you not instruct them yourself? To this question he replied very _sharply_,--thus evincing his name to be indicative of his character and disposition,--that they did not teach them to read and write, and that he did not know that the law prohibited religious and moral instruction to negroes. I answered, “If you, sir, who are engaged in the practice of the law, did not know it, how could it be expected that I should?” “Madam?” said he, as though he did not understand me. I repeated the question, and he then addressed the Judge, and asked permission to say what he had to communicate directly to the jury. I made no objection, and he proceeded to state as follows:-- That certain negroes applied to Rev. Mr. Cummings, the Pastor of Christ’s Church, for religious instruction, and were allowed to meet for that purpose in the lecture room of the church. He (Sharp) occasionally visited the school and lectured to them. _He found that some of them could read very well_, but that when they came to the hard words, _he allowed them to skip over them_!