If you did and others like you in the same position you are in, there would be no such horrible scenes as I saw to-day; a man shot down amongst his own people for speaking the truth." "You SAW it ?" Nathaniel asked in dismay.
"I did.

I not only SAW, but I HEARD.

I wish you had, too.

I heard a man lay bare his heart and his brain and his soul that others might knew the light in them.

I saw and heard a man offer up his life that others might know some gleam of happiness in THEIR lives.