Private MacJenkins was to appear before a military court on the charge of insulting
his sergeant. His defense lawyer addressed the officers' board.
"Gentlemen, Sergeant Bull, the plaintiff, called my client an Irish scoundrel,
as the evidence has shown. Now, Captain Olson, I ask you, if he called you a
Swedish scoundrel? Or you, Major Milton, if he had called you an American scoundrel?
Or any of you, gentlemen of the board, what you have done, if he had called
you the kind of scoundrels you all are?"