You're fixing to lynch your first white man now.

If you do, you'll lynch another easier.

You'll lynch one for murder and the next for stealing hogs and the next because he's unpopular and the next because he happens to dun you for a debt.

And in five years life will be as cheap in Watson County as it is in a New York slum where they feed immigrants to the factories.

You'll all be toting guns and grudges and trying to lynch each other.
"The place to stop the thing is where it starts.