human
Let him alone, boys. We don't want to use our enemies' methods, and I'm quite willing to answer him, he said.
gpt
Nobody has paid me a dollar for what I've tried to do for the cause of brotherhood and liberty, but I was offered a thousand to betray it not a month ago.
human
Name the men who did it,
gpt
I will, said Sewell,
human
How'd you worry along then? A man has got to live.
gpt
What I want--and it's very little--I can earn with the shovel and the drill. I've given your man his answer, but I'm going farther.
human
He's an insect. We've no use for him! Let up, Hall's talking. We're here to hear him!
gpt
What did I get for my pains? said Sewell.
human
That's what the question comes to, and I'll tell you frankly, since, until we or our children bring in the new era, it's all that the man has to expect who believes this world can and ought to be made better. I've been ridden over by U.䒷. cavalry, and beaten by patrolmen's clubs. I've been hounded out of cities where I lawfully earned my bread, and sand-bagged by hired toughs. That would be a little thing if I were the only victim, but you know--you can read it in your papers almost any day--what happens to the men who have the grit to work as well as to hope for the dawn of better days for down-trodden humanity. You're to wait for it--on the other side of Jordan--your teachers say. Boys, we want it here and now, and it's coming, a little nearer every day. You have got to believe that, and when the outlook grows black get a tighter clinch upon your faith. Was it a shadow and a fancy that the men died for who went down in every struggle for the last ten years?--we needn't go back farther. Right across this prosperous continent you'll find their graves--men shot and sabred, strung to bridges and telegraph poles. Boys, we've been waiting--waiting a long while----