Lucas: Today we'e going to exercise our right. This town we're in is destitute and desperate. Tomorrow, the people are going to vote overwhelmingly to put another rich planter in that seat, and he isn't going to do anything for them. The people in this town who are angry and going to express themselves, are going to vote with their hate, and I'm going to do something to counter that, because you what the alternative is?
Elizabeth: Doing nothing.
Lucas: And that's not the captain's way.