Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-11
The COIOred Senator.

THE telegraph announced yesterday
that Hiram B. Revels had been elected
United States Senator, for an unexplrea
term. from Mississippi. This is the first
representative of he colored race elected
to the United States Senate, and he Will
take the seat left vacant by jeff. Davis
when that eminent white man resigned
and became a traitor Mr.. Revels is a
native of North Carolina, and was edu-
Gated in Ohio. He is now about forty live
wears of age, and has been for many years
a clergyman in the African Methodist
Episcopal Church. Before the war he
preached in st. Louis and Baltimore.
The last year Of the war he was at Vicks-
burg, and came from there to Leaven-
worth. He has brother, DR.. Willis r..
Revels, who is practising physician, and
q man of wealth in Indianapolis.
Mr.. Revels came here in the fall OF
1865 and took charge of the church in
this city. He helped the church exhaust
the debt incurred in building the large
church edifice in this city, and was con-
sidered very able man. He is man OF
fine presence, of excellent sense, OF good
business qualifications, and an eloquent
speaker.
The Missouri Annual Conference sent
him from this charge to Louisville, where
he remained one year, when he was
transferred to the Louisiana Conference,
under Bishop Shorter. His present resi-
dence is Natchez At the recent election
he was elected State Senator from the
Fourth District, receiving a majority of
1886, while iAlcorn, for Governor, re-
ceiyed only 2,460.
He is man of genuine courage, and
will not consent to be ill-treated orignor-
ed by persons of any variety of color or
caste. 1t will not be prudent to snub
him in the Senate either on the ground OF
color or of being a carpet-bagger, or for in
tellectual inferiority.
We have letters of his before us, adj
dressed to Captain VIM. d. Matthews, OF
this city. The handwriting is excellent,
the style good, and the spelling invariably
oorrect-and they are very much superior
to the letters written by the two white
men who were reelected to the Senate
from Kansas.
On the 10Th of last June, Mr.. Revels
wrote ~
CT am getting along very well here in
the distant South. am working very
hard in politics; as well as in other mat
tiers. We are determined that Mississippi
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political and legal equality.
On the goth of October he wrote: owe
are in the midst of an exciting canvass
The conservative party, consisting chiefly
of Southern Democrats, is doing every
thing in It's power to elect the Democratic
licked. They have aid from the Demo
cratic party North, and are backed by the
wealth of Mississippi. They have in the
field the ablest Democratic orators. On
the other hand we have but little money
to carry on the canvass, but we are work
ing day and night. Clubs are organized
all over the State, and the colored men
meet in them, once and sometimes twice
week, and receive instructions which nc
Democratic orator can remove from theil
minds. We are also meeting the enemy
on the stump, and he invariably gets the
worst of it. We have nearly twenty
thousand more colored votes than white
in this State, and believe that we shall
elect our State ticket, and have majorit.
in the Legislature"
1t is pleasant to hear Mississippi Sen
ator talk in this way, and it is safe to sa.
that that State will not be guilty of repu
diation or treason while she has such mel
in Congress. We congratulate the coun
try on the successor of jeff. Davis eag
ensoorth (Ran.) Times and Coa'seroati0e.