Nay, they would send down upon ouah heads a forked messenger o' wrath it we should fail to administer justice, fail to do that juty intrusted into ouah hands! There sets the man! There he is befo' you! His guilt has been admitted.

Answer me, gentlemen, what is ouah juty in this case?
Shall we set this incarnate fiend free in the lan' again--shall we let him come clear o' this charge--shall we turn him loose again in ouah midst to murder some other of ouah citizens?
Shall we set this man free ?" His voice had sunk into a whisper as he spoke the last words, leaning forward and looking into the faces of the jury.

Suddenly he straightened up, his clinched hand shaken high above his head.
"No!" he cried.

"No! I say to you, ten thousand times no! We are a people quiet an' law-abidin'.

We have set ouah hands to the conquest o' this lan'.