You understand me, Asa; and you know me.

As for you, Abiram, the child has done you wrong, and it is my place to see you righted.

Remember; I tell you justice shall be done; it is enough.

But you have said hard things ag'in me and my family.

If the hounds of the law have put their bills on the trees and stumps of the clearings, it was for no act of dishonesty as you know, but because we maintain the rule that 'arth is common property.