She herself is a fugitive from no law.

She has broken no law of this land or of this District.

She has a right to dwell here under our laws, so long as she shall obey them, and there is no law of this District, nor this republic, nor of any state, any monarchy, not even any law of nations, which could be invoked to dismiss her from a capital where, though unwelcome, she has a right to remain.

I may be unwelcome to you, you to me, either of us to any man; yet, having done no treason, so long as we pay our debts and observe the law, no man may raise hand or voice against us." "Quite right!" broke in the leader again.

"But let us look simply at the gravity of it.