CHAPTER XXXIV.

“Home Guards” fire into the crowd; five men wounded; one
dies.—“ Shot down in cold blood.”—Charged with murder, ete.—

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The City of Seattle under martial law.—Drive out white citizens
and protect Chinese highbinders.—“ Military headquarters,” ete.
—Unmeasured gall.—Blackstone on martial law.—“ Treason doth
never prosper, what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare
call it treason.”—“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on
the throne.”