Identifier: shadowlightautob00gibb_0 (find matches)
Title: Shadow and light; an autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: Washington, D. C.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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o white 58 SHADOW AND LIGHT. men for actual assaults on the Negro wifeand daughter is equally true. The firstshould be denounced and arrested (escapebeing impossible) and by forms of law suf-fer its extreme penalty. The other for thecause they were murdered should have thehighest admiration and the most sincereplaudits from every honest man. Is it truethat he is a slave most base whose loveof right is for himself and not for all therace/^ and that the measure you mete outto others—the same shall be your portion.All human history verifies these aphor-isms; and that the perpetrators and silentabettors of this barbarism have sowed tothe winds a dire penalty, already beingreaped, is evidenced by disregard of raceor color of the victim when mob law is inthe ascendant. And further, as a salvo fortheir own acts, white men are allowing badNegroes to lynch others of their kind with-out enforcing the law. The Negro^, apish in his affinity to hisprototype in a lynching bee, is beneathcontempt.
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HON. (JKOHIJK )). WHITE. )5oin at Kos4dalt>, North (\*iroHna—(Ti-aduato from Howard rnivcrsiiy in IS77—Practiwd lA\^\ in all tho Courts of his State—M»mb(r of Housh^ of Ri^prc-seutativ*^ in, 1880 and of Seiitato in 1884—Ei^ht Yi^irs l*ros»M-utini:Attorney—Elerted Member of the Fifty-fifth (V)ngrff!s as aItepnhlicaQ. With a Record rnimpeacliahh. SHADOW AND LIGHT. 59 CHAPTEli VI. Early in the year 1858 gold was discov-ered on Eraser Eiver, in the Hudson BayCompanys territory in the Northwest.This territory a few months later was or-ganized as the Colony of British Columbiaand absorbed; is now the western outlookof the Dominion of Canada. The discoverycaused an immense rush of gold seekers,traders, and speculators from all parts ofthe world. In June of that year, with alarge invoice of miners outfits, consistingof flour, bacon, blankets, pick, shovels, etc.,I took passage on steamship Republic forVictoria. The social atmosphere on steam-ers whose patrons are chiefly gold s

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