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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
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erthe trial, the ruling of the bench, theswearing on the stand, the witness com-ing baik to alter and enlarge his testimo-ny and have another gird at the prisoner.You have not forgotten the trials l)eforeJudge Kane at Philadcdphia and JudgeGreer at Christiana and Wilkesbarre. *^Tliese are natural results from causeswell known. You cannot escape a princi-ple. Enslave a negro, will you? Youdoom to bondage vour own sons anddaughters by your own act.- At the death of Theodore Parker, amongthe many eulogies on his life was one byEalph Waldo Emerson, highly noted forhis humanity, his learning and his philos-ophy. It contains apples of gold, andrichly deserves immortality; for in theAvorldly strife for effervescent wealth andprominence, a benign consciousness thatour posthumous fame as unselfish bene-factors to our fellow-men is to live onthrough the ages, would be a solace formuch misrepresentation. Emerson saidrIt is plain to me that Theodore Parkerhas achieved a historic immortality here^
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HON. GEORGE R. CORTELYi )T. Secretary to the Prefiideut.Rni Stem^craplier to ExecutiveClerk, Thence to Secretary to Presidents McKinley andRoosevelt, an Office Now Grown to the Diginityof a Cabinet Position. SHABOW AND LIGHT. 341 It will not be in the acts of City Councilsnor of obsequious Mayors nor in the StateHouse; the proclamations of Governors,with their failing vii^tue failing them atcritical moments, that generations willstudy what really befel; but in the plainlessons of Theodore Parker in this hall, inFaneuil Hall and in legislative committeeroomSj that the true temjjer and authenticrecord of these days will be read. The nextgeneration will care little for the chancesof election that govern Governors now; itwill care little for fine gentlemen who be-haved shabbily; but it will read very intel-ligently in his rough story, fortified with^xact anecdotes, precise wi

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