Miss maudie says, "we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man." what does she mean?

Based on the statement given by Miss Maudie, what she means by that is the people that resides in Maycomb have given their full trust to Atticus when doing the right thing and even if not all of them agrees with most of the people to trust him, they knew that Atticus is the best man to handle and responsible for doing the job.