He had even despised himself fur going into
it. But the looks of things was all the other
way.
Then the doctor give his own testimony.
"Gentlemen," he says, "it is true that I came
down here to try out that stuff in the bottle there,
and see if a market could be worked up for it. It is
also true that, after I came here and discovered
what conditions were, I decided not to sell the stuff.
I didn't sell any. About this Messiah business I
know very little more than you do. The situation
was created, and I blundered into it. I sent the
negroes word that I was not the person they ex-
pected. The bishop lied to them. That is my
whole story."
But they didn't believe him. Fur it was jest
what he would of said if he had been guilty, as
they thought him. And then Grimes gets up and
says:
"Gentlemen, I demand for this prisoner the
penalty of death.
"He has lent himself to a situation calculated to
disturb in this county the peaceful domination of the
black race by the white.
"He is a Northern man. But that is not against
him. If this were a case where leniency were possi-
ble, it should count for him, as indicating an ig-
norance of the gravity of conditions which confront
us here, every day and all the time. If he were my
own brother, I would still demand his death.
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