"Such will be the verdict of the future; but, gentlemen of the
jury, you are this moment the mouthpiece of your age and we are
concerned about your verdict.

"Gentlemen of the jury, the evidence in this case, the
revolting nature of the crime and every consideration of
society demands a verdict of guilty. We have reached the apex
of infamy in the crime which lies unavenged at our doors.

"Let us retrace our steps beginning here to-day. Seeing whither
our present policy as a people toward the Negro has led us, let
us adopt another course.

"Is it a crime for me, one of your sons to invoke loyalty to
our national constitution? If so I commit that crime. Let us
accept the Negro as a partner in our government, and acts such
as these will not occur. Nor in so saying do I abate one inch
of my stand for white supremacy. As long as there are distinct
races there will be racial aspirations for first place. But I
crave not the first place born of the prestige of sitting upon
a throne whose base is forever lapped by the waves of the blood
of the innocent and the helpless. I stand for white supremacy
in intellect, in soul power, in grasp upon the esteem of others
through sheer force of character. But all this aside. Justice
whom you cannot afford to banish from your borders calls upon
you to pronounce over this defendant's head the verdict of
guilty."

Young Maul's speech was now over, but he did not sit down. Having
declared himself in the manner that he did, he knew that he was
henceforth to be a political outcast, a pariah. He had not stood up for
the extension of the caste idea to the political system and knew that
its ban would henceforth be upon him. Yet in spite of the dreary future
which his speech had carved out for him his soul was at ease, for he was
conscious of having advocated that which was best for his people.
Grasping his hat he strode out of the room, not waiting for the verdict
of the jury.

"It is a pity that our section can find no place for so true a soul
presided over by so bright a mind," thought the judge, his eyes
following young Maul, as the latter passed out of the court room, and
through the court house yard, looking neither to the right nor to the
left. The people understood his going. He was saying that he had done
his duty and personally could be absolved from concern as to results