Will you display the American flag ?" "Suppose I refuse ?" "We will pull your house down over your head.

We will give you a coat of tar and feathers, and remove you beyond the limits of the town.

If you ever come back, we will hang you to the nearest tree." "Good Heaven! Is it possible that my fellow-citizens are assassins--incendiaries!" "Your answer, squire." "For mercy's sake, husband, do what they ask," interposed his wife, who had been an anxious listener in the adjoining room.
"I must do it," groaned the squire, speaking the truth almost for the first time in forty-eight hours.

"Alas! where is our boasted liberty of speech!" "Fudge! squire," replied Captain Barney, contemptuously.

"If your friend Jeff Davis should come to Massachusetts to-morrow, to preach a crusade against the North, and to raise an army to destroy the free institutions of the country, I suppose you think it would be an outrage upon free speech to put him down.