What does he have to say to the country jakes? What does he accuse them of? What does it mean to be a man? do you agree with Colonel?

“The idea of YOU lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a MAN! Because you’re brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a MAN? Why, a MAN’S safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind—as long as it’s daytime and you’re not behind him."

He accuses them of being cowards because not one is man enough to do what he believes in alone. He says the cowards find their bravery in the mentality of a mob, that they follow because they have to..... not because they truly believe in what is happening.