“Perhaps it might have been, sir. I did not think so; in the midst of that excitement, I did not think so, sir.”
“If a peace officer set such examples, they cannot complain that they are followed by others.”
“Yes, sir; that may be all true, but the peace officers had all forsaken me and I was there, either to let the election go by default or else to pursue that course,—and I resolved on that to get him away from there.”
“Would not the course have been just as effectual if you had arrested him in the name of the law?”
“I think the parties around him would have resisted arrest.”
“Would not they have equally resisted your firing upon him?”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
In Tuscaloosa