CHAPTER IV.
THE TURNING OF A WORM.
As to who Mr.Tiberius Gracchus Leonard was, or as to where he came from, nobody in Winchester, save himself, knew.
Immediately following the close of the Civil War, Rev.Samuel Christian, a poor but honorable retired minister of the M.E.

Church, South, was the first teacher employed to instruct the colored children of the town.
He was one of those Southerners who had never believed in the morality of slavery, but regarded it as a deep rooted evil beyond human power to uproot.

When the manacles fell from the hands of the Negroes he gladly accepted the task of removing the scales of ignorance from the blinded eyes of the race.
Tenderly he labored, valiantly he toiled in the midst of the mass of ignorance that came surging around him.

But only one brief year was given to this saintly soul to endeavor to blast the mountains of stupidity which centuries of oppression had reared.

He fell asleep.
The white men who were trustees of the colored school, were sorely puzzled as to what to do for a successor.