New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-01-08
ffOn. Henry Cardoza, of South
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of Henry Cardoza, Of South Carolina, bro.
Their of Hon. T. W. Cardoza, Superintend-
ent of Public Education elect, from Mssis.
! sippi, from late Charleston paper:
Born free in Charleston, and surrounded
! by circumstances advantageous to his leading
a quiet and respectable life, and attaining to
comfortable competency, Henry Cardoza
i yet chated under that prescription of his race,
which was increasing and assuming a bitter
| form of persecution, and became disguised
with that condition of his people in which
thrift followed fawning." and PROSTATE
and servile homage was demanded of them
as the price of their liberation. In the early
primo of hfs life he loft bis prescribed people,
and, a voluntary exile from the home and
people of his love, he located in distant
State, and there enjoyed the privilege Of
working out his career from insult and above
the necessity Of sycophancy for his bread.
In the summer OF 1868, after an absence
Of ten years, just when the experiment of
reconstruction had been commenced and
while the Presidential campaign was raging
and the issue doubtful, against the advice of
his Northern friends, who thought his return
premature and perilous, leaving behind him
the comforts OF his new found home and a
| lucrative business, he came back to South
Carolina and at once threw all his energies
into the campaign for President Grant, and
materially assisted in organizing and securing
the triumph of his people in Kershaw county.
He won hold upon the respect and re-
gard OF the people Of that county, which
manifested itself by their selection of him
as their Senator at the next general election
in 1870.
Senator Carloza was born in Charleston,
September / 1880.
He was raised in that city, and, after re-
ceivlng common school education, went to
| the tailoring business, at which he continued
until the year 1853, when, tired of the fawn-
ing life of his people, he removed to Cleve-
land, Ohio, where he established himself in
his business, overca,He all the obstacles that
besct his early career, and, by attention to
| business, enjoyed the recompense of faithful
and arduous performance of duty. In this
| he continued for ten years, and in the sum-
MGR Of 1868 returned to his native
State. The special session Of the first
| Legislature had been in session two weeks
at the time Of his return. lie subsequently
/ located at Camden, and was appointed
| Auditor OF his county. During the Pre- e.
dental canvass, he made several political
| speeches on the Republican side Of the ques-
ton, which won for him the regard of one
party, but exposed him to all the vigor of the
opposing persecution. He was frequently
| threatened with violence, and on several
occasions the house which he occupied, to-
! gethcr with Mr.. Jillson, his predecessor in
| the Senate, was guarded by night by their
! friends 10 secure their safety.
| He held the office OF Auditor Of Kershaw
county for two years, and discharged its
| duties carefully and efficiently.
| At the nominating convention, held IN his
| county previous to the general election in
| 1870, Mr.. Cardoza received the entire vote
of the delegates. with one exception, as the
Republican candidate for the State Senate.
| 1tc the polls he was elected senator for the
term of four years. He is a diligent mem
! Der Of the Committee on Education, Chair
man Of the Committee On Charitable In
stitutions, and on other committees. He
has never been absent from his seat during
the sitting OF the Senate more than one day
in each session, and is prompt in his attend.
ancc on committee work aud all legislative
! duties.
| He has devoted particular attention to all
! legislation relating to the public charities OF
! tie State.
! He was the int:oduccr Of bills for the
| better conduct and management of the
| I.unatc Asylum at Columbia, and of the
State Orphan Asylum at Charleston.
He has always stood on the side of econo-
! my and rctrenchment in public expenditure.
Although not one OF the takers of the Gen
cral Assembly, still he is not backward in
taking the floor when occasion demands that
he should announce his position or advocate
the right.
Again in his native State, representa-
tive man of his enfranchised people, he sits
their honored servant, his own compensation
being the grateful JOY he feels and shares for
their observation-disclosures and his ambitious de-
| sire being that their prosperity may be per
pctual and their elevation continue until
their rank among men, for all the good and
great attributes Of humanity, shall be so
universally admitted, that even prejudice
will acknowledge it.