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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...were employed in tracking the murderers of these negroes, would there be any practical difficulty in finding them? Answer. I think there would be more difficulty in finding them than there was then. Question. Why? Answer. There are two reasons that present themselves to my mind at once. At that time the owner of the negro had a direct personal interest entirety apart from his social or humanitarian interest. He had a direct money interest in detecting. Again: their most efficient method of detecting fugitives was by placing dogs on their track to follow them where the men could not follow. Such means they have not at hand now, and could not use them if they had them. Question. The'y did not use the dogs in the free States? Answer. No, sir; but they could till they came to the line; and if they had them there it was not difficult to find out what had become of them. Question. Not difficult after they crossed the Ohio? Answer. Not difficult, I mean, to determine that they had got to the free territory. Question. But after they got to the free territory, they tracked the negro to the community where he was harbored, as a general thing, didn't they? Answer. I think it is likely they did. I know from general information it was done in a great many cases: I know very frequently they did. Question. To return to the question: If the same instrumentalities were earnestly employed now by the community for the purpose of ascertaining who the murderers of a negro were, have you any doubt that one or more of them could be arrested and brought to justice? Answer. I do consider it extremely doubtful. Where a number of men join together for the purpose of perpetrating an outrage, it is, if anything, in my judgment, more difficult to trace the perpetrators than if one engag...
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