A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
Devoting himself for a generation to the prevention and detection of crim in many countries. He was the found in America of a noble profession. In the hour of the nation's peril, he conducted Abraham Lincoln safely through the ranks of treason to the scene of his first inauguration as president. He sympathized with, protected and defended the slaves, and labored earnestly for their freedom. Hating wrong, and loving good, he was strong, brave, tender and true.

Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884)

 

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