Raising his voice, he said: "Stand back, and hear what I've got to say.

You're a hundred to one.

You can probably kill me; but before you do that I shall kill three or four of you.

I've had to do with rioters before.

You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle-ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles.