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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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of the South, who, it has beencomputed, have contributed ono hundredmillions of dollars since emancipation bytaxes and donations for his education, andthere are many evidences that the bestthouiglit of the South is in line with Negroemployment and his educational advance-ment in the belief that the more generalthe intelligence the greater the Statesprogress, morally and materially. Thisconviction was emphatically expressed byan over-^vhelming negative xote in the Ar-kansas Legislature recently, where a meas-ure was introduced to abandon him to hisown taxable resources for education. Theratio of his moral and material productwill be the measure of his gratitude forthis great boon. For, after all, many of^^our great dangers are not from without. General , a leading Democrat of this State, and an unmistakable friend of thenegro, referring to the above evidence ofgood feeling, said he did not see why I,an4 other reputed leaders, in view of suchevidences of friendship, (Ji(J not induce our
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EDWARD E. COOPER.Editor and Publisher of Colored American, Washington, D. C. Founder of Colored World and Indianapolis Freeman Cons;icuous as aLeader and Enterprisinj^ as a Jouinalist. SHADOW AND LIGHT. 119 people to be fraternal politically. I repliedthat the effort had once been made, butthat the Democratic party, intrenched asit was in large majorities in the South, ^^+Tyways that are dark and tricks that arevain, its leaders say they ^^do not need,neither do they solicit^ the colored vote;but if they choose, they nia)^ so vote. Hesaid that certainh had a ringing sound ofindependence and was uninviting as an an-nouncement—an indei)endence, however,that will not forever outlive the vagariesof sound, for it is not unlikely that hewill not only vote the ticket, but be ear-nestly^ solicited to do so. For it will hap-pen, during the whirligig of time and ac-tion, in my i)arty as well as others, thatthere will be a change of policies, new is-sues, local dissatisfaction, friction, conte

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