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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: what he would of said if he had been guilty, as
they thought him. And then Grimes gets up and
says:
"Gentlemen, I demand for this prisoner the
penalty of death.
"He has lent himself to a situation calculated to
disturb in this county the peaceful domination of the
black race by the white.
"He is a Northern man. But that is not against
him. If this were a case where leniency were possi-
ble, it should count for him, as indicating an ig-
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