. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . been carriedon for years. Polk of Missouri said in the Senate: Undergroundrailroads are established, stretching! from the remotest slaveholdingstates clear up to Canada. Secret agencies are put to work in the verymidst of our slaveholding communities to steal away slaves. * * *This lawlessness is felt with special seriousness in the border slave underground railroads start mostly from these states. Hundredsof thousands of dollars are lost annually. And no state loses moreheavily
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . been carriedon for years. Polk of Missouri said in the Senate: Undergroundrailroads are established, stretching! from the remotest slaveholdingstates clear up to Canada. Secret agencies are put to work in the verymidst of our slaveholding communities to steal away slaves. * * *This lawlessness is felt with special seriousness in the border slave underground railroads start mostly from these states. Hundredsof thousands of dollars are lost annually. And no state loses moreheavily than my own. Kentucky, it is estimated, loses annually as muchas $200,000. The other border states no doubt lose in the same ratio, much more. But all these losses and outrages, all this disregard INDIANA AND INDIANANS 533 of constitutional obligation and social duty, are as nothing in their bear-ing upon the Union in comparison with the animus, the intent and pur-pose of which they are at once the fruit and the evidence. In some respects, aiding of the fugitives took on the form of a great. Col. William M. Cockrum game of hide and seek, played while most of the population were in bedand asleep. The slave hunters, of course, went armed when in pursuitof fugitives, and at times were insolent and overhearing, which arousedthe resentment of even persons who were not especially interested inthe fugitives, and still more so the active anti-slavery men. Cockrum 534 INDIANA AND INDIANANS tells of the routing of a party of slave catchers who were watching theDougola bridge over the Patoka river for a party of fugitives, by aparty of anti-slavery men who captured their horses, tied explosivefire-brands to their tails, and chased them across the bridge, to the dismayand terror of the watchers, who promptly decamped. He gives anotheraccount of waylaying a mounted party at the Kirks Mill bridge, andfrightening them aaid their horses by exploding a number of bombs, andpretending to
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