The men go to the jail because they want to lynch Tom Robinson -- to kill him rather than letting him go on trial. This was something that Southern whites did relatively often to black men who were accused of sexually molesting white women in the early 1900s.
What convinces Cunningham to leave is that Scout talks to him and asks him about the case that Atticus is working on for him. When she does this, she reminds him that he is an individual rather than just part of a mob. He realizes that what they are doing is wrong when he has to think about it rather than just doing what everyone else is doing.
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