"No?"
"I have confiscated the property of slaveholders for use in a divine cause."
"Who gave you the right to confiscate the property of others in any cause?"
"Again I answer, my conscience."
"So a common thief can say."
"I am no common thief."
"Yet when you forced your way into Colonel Washington's home at night you committed a felony, known as burglary."
"I did it in a holy crusade, sir."
"The highwayman on the plains might plead the same necessity."
"You know, Colonel Lee, that I am neither felon, nor highwayman. I am an Abolitionist. My sole aim in the invasion of the South is to free the slave—"