The Man from Colorado Page #2

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- Must be lots of pretty girls there too.

Don't matter if you're fat or lean.

They're proud to dance with a soldier.

Yes, sir, laugh and dance

and talk and...

...make a man mighty glad

he's home from the war.

Jericho, shut up. Just shut up now.

I don't know why you

don't walk to Glory Hill...

...and have yourselves a little drink.

We ain't going nowheres

and neither are you.

I don't trust you

as far as I could stick this.

Careful. I ain't even been

court-martialed yet.

- Don't yell.

- Now we're all in trouble.

I said, be quiet.

Now stay there.

- The colonel will have me shot.

- He'll just give you life in jail.

Take me with you, Jericho.

I'm gonna live off the country,

instead of it living off me.

- You want to try that?

- It's that or get court-martialed myself.

All right, come on.

We won't be needing you. Get.

Everybody's so proud

of you, Owen.

Are they?

It's really wonderful to have

you and Del back home again.

The town hasn't been

the same without you.

I suppose you'll open up

your law office again.

There's an office over

Mr. Trumbull's store.

Mrs. Trumbull told me to tell you

about it before you made plans.

You talk too much.

Ladies and gentlemen,

veterans, friends...

...I'm not telling you

any news when I say...

...this is the greatest night

in the history of our great little city.

We welcome and we thank...

...the brave volunteers who kept

the road open to the Union...

...and who saved our Colorado

gold from the invader.

But words are not enough.

Action, that's what we all want.

That's what this man is here for.

Mr. Roger MacDonald from Denver...

...representative of

the territorial governor...

...has a very important

announcement.

- Mr. MacDonald.

- Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen...

...it gives me great pleasure

to announce...

...that the territorial governor, at

the request of your leading citizens...

...has appointed as the first federal

judge in this district...

...Colonel Owen Devereaux.

- Owen, how wonderful.

- Why didn't you tell us about it?

I hadn't made up my mind.

Haven't yet.

Now it's up to Colonel Devereaux.

I just want to say one thing.

I didn't ask for my job in the Army.

I was elected to it by the volunteers

who served with me.

So now, unless those same men

and you home folks here...

...tell me that I'm the man

you want for judge...

...I don't want the job,

and I won't accept it.

- Well, all right, folks, how about it?

- Yeah!

Thanks. I'll do my best

to do a good job.

- Thank you.

- Congratulations, Owen.

Your dance, judge.

Colonel. Jericho busted out. He

escaped. Him and Mutton McGuire.

- All right. Dismissed.

- Thank you, sir.

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