They permitted themselves to be shot because they had been educated to bare their backs at the command of the white oligarch.

But that sort of pusillanimous cowardice cannot be expected to last always.

Men in a state of freedom instinctively question the right of others to impose unequal burdens upon them, or to deny to them equal and exact protection of the laws.

When oppressed people begin to murmur, grow restless and discontented, the opposer had better change his tactics, or lock himself up, as does the cowardly tyrant of Russia.
A new generation of men has come upon the stage of action in the South.

They know little or nothing of the regulations or the horrors of the slave regime.