"Ignorant, selfish, brutal, devilish."

"Tremendous! why don't you bind him over to keep the peace?"

"Because he is like the judge of old time, neither fears God nor
respects his image,--when his image is carved in ebony, and not ivory."

"What do you call this fellow?"

"Public Opinion."

"This big fellow is abusing and devouring a poor little chap, eh? and
the chap's black?"

"True."

"And sometimes the giant is a gentleman in purple and fine linen,
otherwise broadcloth; and sometimes in hodden gray, otherwise homespun
or slop-shop; and sometimes he cuts the poor little chap with a silver
knife, which is rhetoric, and sometimes with a wooden spoon, which is
raw-hide. Am I stating it all correctly?"

"All correctly."

"And you've been watching this operation when you had better have been
minding your own business, and getting excited when you had better have
kept cool, and now want to rush into the fight, drums beating and colors
flying, to the rescue of the small one. Don't deny it,--it's all written
out in your eyes."