than were found here then and that it would be unjust to exile them. He asserted that white people should grant Negroes their rights or lose their own and that since education is the primal, fundamental right of all men, Connecticut was the last place where this should be denied.[4] [Footnote 1: Jay, _An Inquiry_, etc., p. 30.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., pp. 32 _et seq_.] [Footnote 3: Jay, _An Inquiry, etc._, p. 33; and _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, pp. 328 _et seq._] [Footnote 4: Jay, _An Inquiry_, etc., p. 33.] Miss Crandall and her pupils were threatened with violence. Accommodation at the local stores was denied her. The pupils were insulted. The house was besmeared and damaged. An effort was made to invoke the law by which the selectmen might warn any person not an inhabitant of the State to depart under penalty of paying $1.67 for every week he remained after receiving such notice.[1] This failed, but Judson and his followers were still determined that the "nigger school" should never be allowed in Canterbury nor any town of the State. They appealed to the legislature. Setting forth in its preamble that the evil to be obviated was the increase of the black population of the commonwealth, that body passed a law providing that no person should establish a school for the instruction of colored people who were not inhabitants of the State of Connecticut, nor should any one harbor or board students brought to the State for this purpose without first obtaining, in writing, the consent of a majority of the civil authority and of the selectmen of the town.[2] [Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed_., 1871, p. 331; and May, _Letters to A.T. Judson, Esq., and Others_, p. 5.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., p. 5.]