Dr. Stiggins:
Well, I have no doubt that these summary executions are a necessity, though perhaps a painful one. Indeed, they must be both necessary and justifiable, for they are the will of the people. You know the adage: Vox populi vox Dei, you know as well as I do that the People are always right. It is for that reason that we are Liberals, that we base all our principles upon the absolute, eternal, infallible supremacy of the people's will. Ergo, as the old logicians say, if the people of America choose to burn Negroes alive with what some would call refinements of slow and lingering torment: then the people of America must be right in doing so. But mark: while the left hand, as it were, of this great nation dribbles a little more kerosene on the slowly carbonizing form of its free and equal (but coloured) citizen, the other, raised aloft in all the awfulness of intense moral dignity, rebukes the cruelties of guilty Russia and takes the poor hunted Jew under the protecting folds of the banner of the Great Republic! Am I not
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