I dare not only to impeach the mob, I impeach and discredit the veracity of men generally, whether mobocrats or otherwise who sympathise with lynch law, whenever or wherever the acts of coloured men are in question.
Douglass expresses distrust in the integrity of those who support lynch law, regardless of their status.
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