The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920. Various

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      Mr. Monroe N. Work,

      Editor Negro Year Book,

      Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

      Dear Sir:

      I presume you received my letter of February 18, also the one of January 19, relative to corrections in the data on Reconstruction.

      I herewith send you a few more before you go to press on your book pertaining to the part the Negro played in the political history of the Southern States during the Reconstruction period:

      I am in error as to James Martin, of Abbeville, who was assassinated, as being colored. I was informed that he was colored, but in reading the eulogies delivered by the different members of the House and Senate, I find that he was not even an American. He was a native of Ireland.

      W. A. Bishop, who represented the Greenville district in the first legislature, was white, not colored. In the list of delegates to the Republican meeting at Charlestown, May 9, 1867, he is given as white in Reynolds' book. I met a friend from Greenville about ten days ago and in speaking to him about Bishop he said that he was white and that he knew of no colored Bishops in that district.

      On page 9 of my data I state that Mr. Whipper was born in South Carolina. I met his son, who is living here, sometime ago and he informed me that his father was born in Pennsylvania.

      With reference to Judge Whipper I would add that one of the first acts of the first legislature was to elect a commission of three members to revise and consolidate the Statute laws of the State and that he was the first member elected. Quite a tribute to his legal ability.

      On page 12 add the following names as from the North.

      Rev. B. F. Randolph—Senator—Orangeburg district.

      W. J. Whipper—Member—Beaufort district.

      Judge J. J. Wright—Beaufort district—afterwards Associate Judge Supreme Court, and on page 8, under his name please state—born in Pennsylvania.

      On page 107 Reynolds' book—Abbeville Co.—W. J. Lomax, should be Hutson J. Lomax, this is official. On page 59 and 77 he has it H. J. which is correct.

      Same page—Fairfield—Henry Jacob, should be Jacobs—He was also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention—See page 77.

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      The late Honorable Francis L. Cardoza at one time Secretary of State for South Carolina, several years before his death stated to the undersigned the following in substance:

      That a number of colored men met and appointed a committee which was sent to Washington to get the advice of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens concerning the formation of the political organization for the newly enfranchised Negro citizen shortly after the adoption of the 14th Amendment.

      Pains were taken to keep the plans from both the native whites and the so-called carpet baggers from the North. That both Mr. Sumner and Mr. Stevens advised the committee to tender the leadership to native whites of the former master class of conservative views: but this plan was frustrated because they were not able to secure the consent of desired representatives of the former master class to assume the proffered leadership.

      Subscribed to and sworn before me, Samuel E. Lacy a Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia, this Fourteenth (14th) Day of December 1917.

      J. H. Stewart who now lives in Austin.

      Edward Patton, San Jacinto County, now living in Washington is in Government service.

      Nathan H. Haller, Brazoria County. House, 1892-94. Reelected and counted out. Contested his seat and won.

      R. L. Smith, Colorado County, 1895-99, now living in Waco. Is president of the Farmers Bank and head of the Farmers Improvement Association. For sketch of, see Negro Year Book, p. 322. For his work in the Legislature, see attached letter.

      Elias May, Brazos County, in the early days of Reconstruction.

      R. J. Moore, Washington County, representative.

      –– Gaines, senator, Lee County.

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      Prof. Monroe N. Work, Tuskegee Inst. Ala.

      Dear Mr. Work:

      I was elected in Nov. 1894 as representative for Colorado county and was re-elected in 1896.

      My majority in 1894 was 168 and in 1896 at the next election it was 450 as I recollect it.

      I was appointed on the committee on education and on privilege and election and on agriculture.

      I introduced a bill restoring colored trustees which finally passed.

      I fought a bill establishing separate waiting rooms for the races at R. R. Station and killed it for four years.

      I introduced a resolution inviting manufacturing cotton plants to come to Texas. I introduced a resolution granting the use of the Hall of the House of Representatives to the colored citizens of Austin to hold their memorial services for Fred Douglas. When one understands the race feeling in the South СКАЧАТЬ