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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at-ing freedom, and slavery is doomed. Theline cherished hj the founders, the Gi-braltar against which slavery had dashedits angry billows, must be blotted out, andover every rod of virgin soil it was to beadmitted Avithout let or hindrance. Then came the dark days of compromise,the era of Northern fear of secession, and,finally, opinion crystallizing into legisla-tion non-committal, viz: That States ap-plying for admission should be admittedas free or slave States, as a majority oftheir inhabitants might determine. Thencame the struggle for Kxtnsas. Emigrationsocieties were fitted out lit the Xew Eng-land and Northern States to send freeState men to locate Avho would vote tobring in Kansas as a free State. Similarorganizations existed in the slave Statesfor the opposite purpose. It is not pleasant to dAvell nor fitly por-tray the terrible ordeal through which thefriends of freedom passed. In 1859 theysucceeded; right and justice Avere trium-phant, the beneficial results of which will
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HON. JOHN M. LANOSTON. Boiu in Louisa Country, Vn.—I^)ducntod nt Olxuliu. Ohio—M<Miib(i B<jjnd ofHealth, District of C-olumhia in 1.S71—Mniistc r Kosideut and Consul-General to Port-au-Princ(\ Hayti, 1877—Elected to Con^ri«s from Fourth Congressional IJistriet of Virginia in. -■^ ^H¥.\—Author of Fr«^odoni and Ciiizen.shii) / Y iintd From the Virginia Plant it ion to the National Capitol. SHADOW AND LIGHT. 71 reach remotest time. It was in this con-flict that the heroism of John Brown de-veloped. It was there he saw his kindredand liis friends murdered, and there reg-istered his vow to avenge their blood inthe disenthralment of the slave. The com-peers of this ^^grand old man or people ofthe nation could have scarcely supposedthat this man, hitherto obscure, was to bethe instrument of retributive justice, to in-augurate a rebellion which Avas to culmi-nate in the freedom of 4,000,000- slaves.John Brown, at the head of a few devotedmen, at Harpers Ferry, struck the

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