midnight
They alone would have the audacity to fling this crime into the teeth of the world and threaten worse . We are face to face with Southern barbarism . Every man now to his own standard ! The house of Stoneman can have no part with midnight assassins . '' `` Nor with black barbarians , father . It is a question of who possesses the right of life and death over the citizen , the organized virtue of the community , or its organized crime . You have mistaken for death the patience of a generous people .