12/21 And I'll remind you, Buck Hightower, that, on the occasion you drag in, Colonel Buckner didn't do any talking about higher laws or unwritten laws. He sent word to the sheriff to come and get him if he dared." "Boys," says the colonel, "I'm preaching you higher doctrine than I've lived by, and I've made no claim to be better or more moral than any of you. I'm in the same boat with all of you, and I tell you it's up to ALL of us to stop lynchings in this county--to set our faces against it. I tell you--" "Is that all you've got to say to us, colonel ?" The question come out of a group that had drawed nearer together whilst the colonel was talking. |