"At any cost?"
"At any cost. I see, feel, know but one thing-that you are guilty of a great wrong against God and humanity. I have the right to interfere with you. To free those whom you hold in bondage."
"Even though you deluge the world in blood?"
"Yes. That is why I am here. I have no personal hate. No spirit of revenge. I have killed only when I thought I had to. I have protected your citizens whom hold as prisoners."
"You had no right to take those men prisoners."
Brown ignored the interruption.
"I ordered my men to fire only on those who were trying to stop our work."
"And yet you placed these pikes in the hands of negroes and gave them oil-soaked torches?"
Brown threw his hand high over his head as if to waive an irrelevant remark.
"I am here, sir, to aid those suffering a great wrong."