"But there's a heavy debt hanging over this damned Committee--a debt they'll have to pay themselves one day at the end of a rope, if there's as many honest men in this town as I think there is.
"I helped form the first Vigilance Committee, boys.

We did it to protect the town from just such men as are running the Committee right now.

When crimes like this can be done right before our eyes, in broad daylight, I say it's time another Committee was formed, to hang this one! Here they've got a man that they know, and we all know, ain't done a thing but what any brave, honest man would do.

They've gone through a farce trial that'd make the Digger Injuns ashamed of themselves; and they've condemned Jack Allen, that's got more real manhood in his little finger than there is in the dirty, lying carcasses of the whole damned outfit--they've condemned him to be hung! "And why! I can tell yuh why--and it ain't for killing Texas and Rawhide--two as measly, ornery cusses as there was in town--it ain't for that.

It's for daring to say, last night in my place, that the Committee is rotten to the core, and that they murdered Sandy McTavish in cold blood when they took him out and hung him for killing that greaser in self-defense.