If the mob failed to lynch the guilty and lynched instead an innocent man, it was so much the worse for the innocent man, not at all for the mob, however red their hands were with that innocent man's blood.
Grimké discusses the moral implications of lynching, emphasizing the indifference of the mob to the innocence of their victims.
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