The Last of the Mohicans - Justice and Loyalty in Conflict
Cora Munro: [about Hawkeye]
He saved us. We're alive only because of him.
Colonel Munro:
The man encouraged the colonials to desert in this very room and in my presence!
British Officer: [hands papers to Colonel Munro]
Sir!
Colonel Munro:
He is guilty of sedition. He must be tried and hanged like any other criminal, regardless of what he did for my children.
Cora Munro: [to Heyward]
But he knew the consequences, and he stayed. Are those the actions of a criminal? Duncan, do something.
Maj. Heyward:
He knew the penalty for his actions. He ought to pay without sending you to beg.
Cora Munro:
You know he wouldn't send me. You falsely spoke of what you saw. What happened at the farm was as Nathaniel said.
Colonel Munro:
But not with enough certainty to outweigh British interests in this fort.
Maj. Heyward:
And who empowered these colonials to pass judgment on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"?
Cora Munro:
They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!
Maj. Heyward:
You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him!
Cora Munro:
Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities, but taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you.
Colonel Munro:
Cora! Cora, I would do anything I could to keep you from being hurt. But this man is guilty of sedition... and subject to military justice and beyond pardon.
Cora Munro:
Justice? If that's justice than the sooner French guns blow the English out of America the better it will be for the people here!
Colonel Munro:
You do not know what you're saying, girl!
Cora Munro:
Yes I do, I know exactly what what I'm saying, and if it is sedition, than I am guilty of sedition too!
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The Last of the Mohicans - Conflict Over Honor and Responsibility
Colonel Munro:
Montcalm is a soldier and a gentleman, not a butcher.
Hawkeye:
Easy for you to suppose, it's their women and children on the farms, not yours!
Colonel Munro:
You forget yourself, sir.
Jack Winthrop:
We're not forgetting Webb's promise.
Colonel Munro:
British promises are honored. And the militia will not be released, because I need more definite proof than this man's word.
Jack Winthrop:
Nathaniel's word's been good on the frontier a long time before you got here.
Colonel Munro:
This meeting is over, the militia stays.
Jack Winthrop:
Does the rule of English law no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?
Hawkeye:
If English law cannot be trusted maybe these people would do better making their own peace with the French.
Maj. Heyward:
That is sedition!
Hawkeye:
That is the truth.
Maj. Heyward:
I'll have you beaten from this fort!
Hawkeye:
Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
Colonel Munro:
Anyone fomenting or advocating the leaving of Fort William Henry will be hung for sedition. Anyone actually CAUGHT leaving will be shot for desertion. Now my decision is final. Get out!
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The Last of the Mohicans - Understanding Death and Honor in Conflict
Colonel Munro:
Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
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