Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-02-11
The COlOrCd Senator.

THE telegraph announced yesterday
that Hiram B. Revels had been elected =
United States Senator, for an unexpired
i term, from Mississippi This is the hrsi
! renresentatiVe of ihe colored race elected
10 The limited States Senate, and he will
iake tbe scat LEFT vacant by jeff. Davis
when that eminent white man resigned
and became n traitor Mr.. Revels Is a
native of North Carolina, and was edu.
Gated in Ohio. He is now about iorty-fve
years of age, and has been for many years
D 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 Mt Nicks-
burg, and came from there to Lgaven'
worth. lie has brother, DIR. Wills k.
Revols, who is n practising physician, ana
a man of wealth in Indianapolis.
Mr.. Revcls came here in the fall OF
| 1865, and took charge Of the church in
this city. lie helped the church exhaust
| the debt incurred in building the large
church edifce in this city, and was con.
sidtrcd q very able man. Ilo 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-.
doncc Is Natchez At the recent election
he was elected State Senator from the
Fourth District, receiving majority of
3,1S6, while Alcorn, for Governor, re-
ccivod only 2,460.
lie is man of genuine courage, and
will not consent to be ill.treatcd or ignor.
ed by pS sons of any variety of color or
caste. II will not be prudent TO snub
him in the Senate either on the ground of
color or Of being a carpCt-baggcr, or for in
telcctual inferiority.
We have letters of his before us, ad-
dressed to Captain VIM d. Matthews, of
this city. The handwriting is excellent,
the style good, and the spelling invariably
correCt-and they arc very much superior
TO the letters written by the two white
men who were re elected to the Senate
from Kansas.
On the 10Th of last June, Mr.. Revcls
wrote
am getting along very well here in
the distant South. | am working very
hard in politics, as well as in other mat
tcrs. We are determined that Mississippi
shall be settled on a basis of Justice and
pOnJlCAl ana legal equality.
On the 29th of October he wrote: ave
are in the midst of an exciting canvass.
The conservative party, consisting chiefly
of Southern Democrats, is doing every
thing in ITS 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 abest 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
n week, and receive instructions which no
Democratic orator can remove from their
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 majority
in the Legislature"
1t is pleasant to hear Mississippi Sen
ator talk in this way, and IL is safe to say
that that State will not be guilty of repu-
diation or treason while she has such men
in Congress. We congratulate the coun.
try on the successor of jeff Davis. - LodU-
0aDorh (hda.) Times and Conservative.