Note Beside me gloomed the prison-cell — Chapter VII
Reading edition
Page 478. Beside me gloomed the prison-cell. The reference is to Dr. Reuben Crandall, of Washington, who, in 1834, was arrested and confined in the old city prison until his health was destroyed, his offence having been in lending to a brother physician a copy of Whittier's pamphlet, "Justice and Expediency."