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At the end of the seven years, Stone and Scratch agree to a three-year extension, after which Scratch refuses to extend further; Stone hires the noted orator and lawyer [[Daniel Webster]] to take his case.  Webster is unable to get Stone out of the deal as the contract is ironclad and Scratch will not compromise.  Webster then tries to argue that an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince ("We fought England for that in '12 and we'll fight all hell for it again!"), in reply Scratch boasts that he is a citizen, having been at the worst events in American history, and comments that he has been in the country longer than Webster.

At the end of the seven years, Stone and Scratch agree to a three-year extension, after which Scratch refuses to extend further; Stone hires the noted orator and lawyer [[Daniel Webster]] to take his case.  Webster is unable to get Stone out of the deal as the contract is ironclad and Scratch will not compromise.  Webster then tries to argue that an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince ("We fought England for that in '12 and we'll fight all hell for it again!"), in reply Scratch boasts that he is a citizen, having been at the worst events in American history, and comments that he has been in the country longer than Webster.

Webster then demands a jury trial; he has to agree to allow Scratch to select the judge and jury but demands that the members be American.  Scratch then brings out an American "jury of the damned" (including notorious individuals such as Loyalists [[Walter Butler]] and [[Simon Girty]], [[King Philip]] of the Wampanoag people, former Virginia colony Governor [[Thomas Dale]], and Plymouth Pilgrim rival [[Thomas Morton]]; [[Benedict Arnold]] "out on other business).  The judge enters last – [[John Hathorne]], the infamous and unrepentant executor of the Salem witch trials.

Webster then demands a jury trial; he has to agree to allow Scratch to select the judge and jury but demands that the members be American.  Scratch then brings out an American "jury of the damned" (including notorious individuals such as Loyalists [[Walter Butler]] and [[Simon Girty]], [[King Philip]] of the Wampanoag people, former Virginia colony Governor [[Thomas Dale]], and Plymouth Pilgrim rival [[Thomas Morton]]; [[Benedict Arnold]] "out on other business").  The "judge" enters last – [[John Hathorne]], the infamous and unrepentant executor of the [[Salem Witch Trials]].

Recognizing that he was part of a [[show trial]], Webster realized that the jury didn't want just Stone, they wanted Webster as well.  Thus, he gives an oratory on good and simple things.  He also admits the failings in American history, but also all the good that came out of it, "something "no demon that was ever foaled" could ever understand.  The plan works, in a case of [[jury nullification]] the jury finds for Stone, and they and the judge disappear at dawn.

Recognizing that he was part of a [[show trial]], Webster realized that the jury didn't want just Stone, they wanted Webster as well.  Thus, he gives an oratory on good and simple things.  He also admits the failings in American history, but also all the good that came out of it, "something "no demon that was ever foaled" could ever understand.  The plan works, in a case of [[jury nullification]] the jury finds for Stone, and they and the judge disappear at dawn.