Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Van Heflin: Rader

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• Rader : You find the truth hard to take, hmm?

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Listen, Rader, I know the truth of this problem far better than you do. The South will settle it - in its own time and in its own way. But not through the propaganda of renegades like this John Brown or any of his followers.

• James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : I told you before we started you had that curb chain on too tight. It's not the first time you've cut his tongue.

  Rader : Ever tried putting a curb on your tongue?

• Rader : I couldn't stand by and see my country torn apart by a mad man like Brown. I had to come here. This was something a lot bigger than myself.

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : It couldn't have been the size of the reward you'll get for turning him in, could it?

• Rader : I suppose it takes one of you Southerners to handle a horse.

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Well, at least, we know how to harness them.

  Rader : You know how to harness negroes down south too I hear. With a strap across their back.

• Rader : I've taken a lot from of you Southern snobs. For 50 years now you've been watering your precious family trees with the sweat of negro slaves. Piling up wealth and snobbery until now you think you own the government and the army. And anybody who disagrees with you is a lying renegade, a rebel rousing traitor. Well, you get this from me, Stuart, and all you other Mason Dixon plutocrats, the time is coming when the rest of us are going to wipe you and your kind off the face of the earth.

• Rader : Brown plans to arouse the slaves - first in Virginia and then throughout the South in open rebellion. The telegraph wires will be cut and he'll block the railroad and then at daybreak they rush the arsenal take thousands of weapons with the idea of arming the negroes.