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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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ready to say, as Jehu to Jonahab, thyheart right, as my heart is with thineheart? If it be, give me thine hand. Previous to a Presidential campaign Iattended a meeting of leading colored Ke-publicans at New Orleans, La. It was notcalled as a strictly political conference inliie interest of any particular candidate,but to exchange views and hear sugges-tions relating to pending legislation in Mis-sissippi and South Carolina for curtailing,if not abolishing Negro suffrage in thoseStates. Although the political conditionof the Negro was then and continues to beof such moment that at no intelligent gath-ering will it fail to bob up and demanda hearing, and this was no exception. Whilethe claims of lieed, Morton, Allison, Harri-son, and McKinley were freely discussed,the suffrage was the leading topic. Prominent among the attendants wereT. T. Fortune, of New York; N W. Cuneyand E. J. Scott, of Texas; W. A. Pledgerand H. E. Johnson, of Georgia; P. B. S.Pinchback, James Lewis, and J. Madison
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SHADOW AND LIGHT. 211 Vance, of Louisiana; Stevens, of Alabama;Stevens, of Louisville, Ky., E. Fortune, ofFlorida; C. W. Anderson, of New York, andothers. The late N. AV. Cuney, of Texas, was aman of commanding presence, forceful ande^mphatic as a speaker; honest, tireless and♦self-sacrificing. His sterling qualities as aleader of men grows brighter as time re-cedes from his demise. Fearless in enunciation, the timidthought him impractical. But there is everthis coincerning unpopular truth: Wlien itinduces honest thought that burns to bespoken, you can depend it is not confinedto a single possessor; it has habitation inmany hearts. But he alone is the ^4eaderof leaders, who, with Eolion harp or trum-pet call summons its worshipers. Amongmatters discussed was the charge that Ne-gro delegations were a marketable com-modity, with no convictions as to nationalpolicy, no regard for manly probity, andwere ever at the beck of the highest pur-chaser in the political market. Such asweeping c

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