human
And if I refuse this modest request, what am I to expect as the consequence?
gpt
The immediate consequence will be the calling out at noon to-day of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, thus tying up every road in the country, to be followed to-morrow by similar action on the part of the Knights of Labor, involving every industry in the land and turning millions of idle men loose upon our streets. What will stand between you, your hoarded wealth, and your cherished ones--your lives--and the wild vengeance of a long oppressed and starving populace, I leave you to imagine.
human
And you actually expect me to believe this trash,--expect me to believe that the State of Illinois will stand idly by and see----
gpt
The governor of Illinois, interrupted Elmendorf,
human
No power on earth, you absurd lunatic? do you mean that because this State has a crank like you temporarily at the top there's nothing beyond or behind it to save us from pillage and murder and anarchy? Listen to that, you foreign-born fraud! and far up the street the morning air was ringing with shouts of acclaim;
gpt
For loud and clear a trumpet-call echoed down the thoroughfare.
human
Look at that! he cried, throwing aside the lower shutters,
gpt
No power on earth! persisted the incensed man of books.
human
You stuffed owl! Go back to your mobs and murderers, and when you've told them what you've seen, keep going until you get back out of this to the country where such as you belong,--if there is one on earth that'll own you,--and tell them the United States is a government, a _Nation_,--by the Eternal! and don't you dare forget it again.
gpt
But this is invasion! this is treason!