I abandon it at once.

The prisoners shall be hung and quartered.
I presume that you have no objection to offer to that." "That, general, is a matter in your own competence, and for your own conscience," Hamilton said.

"The men have simply, as I understand, defended their property against marauders, and they are, as I conceive, worthy of no punishment whatever.

If you choose to sentence them to such a punishment, it is your sentence, not mine.

I thought it was your policy to heal the breach between the two parties.