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Count up all the cases of rescue of negroes in the north, and you can find in your newspapers more cases of unlawful lynching and murder of white men in the south.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Count up all the cases of rescue of negroes in the north, and you can find in your newspapers more cases of unlawful…”
Editor's note · Context
Sherman compares the number of rescues of Black individuals in the North to lynchings in the South.
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