But that is not against him.

If this were a case where leniency were possible, it should count for him, as indicating an ignorance of the gravity of conditions which confront us here, every day and all the time.

If he were my own brother, I would still demand his death.
"Lest he should think my attitude dictated by any lingering sectional prejudice, I may tell him what you all know--you people among whom I have lived for thirty years--that I am a Northern man myself.
"The negro who was lynched to-day might never have committed the crime he did had not the wild, disturbing dream of equality been stirring in his brain.

Every speech, every look, every action which encourages that idea is a crime.

In this county, where the blacks outnumber us, we must either rule as masters or be submerged.
"This man is still believed by the negroes to possess some miraculous power.