Shadow and Light

An Incident of Peril--My Return to the United States in 1869--Thoughts and Feelings En Route--Entered Oberlin Law College and Graduated--Visit to my Brother, J. C. Gibbs, Secretary of State of Florida--A Delegate to the National Convention of Colored Men at Charleston, S. C.--"Gratitude Expensive"--The Trend of Republican Leaders--Contribution of Southern White People for Negro Education--Views of a Leading Democrat.

President of National Convention at Nashville, Tenn., in 1876--Pen and Ink Sketch by H. V. Redfield of "Cincinnati Commercial"--Colored Leaders Desire to Fraternize for Race Protection--William H. Grey, H. B. Robinson, and J. H. Johnson, of Arkansas, Leaders and Planters--My Arrival at Little Rock, May, 1871--Reading of Local Statutes in the Law Office of Benjamin & Barnes--"Wheeler & Gibbs," Attorneys-at-Law.