ounty, North Carolina,
March 17, 1825; was raised as a slave, and received no early
education, because the laws of that State made it criminal to educate
slaves; removed to Alabama in 1830, and, by clandestine study,
obtained a fair education; became a dealer in general merchandise; was
elected tax-collector of Dallas County in 1867, and councilman of the
city of Selma in 1869; was elected a representative from Alabama in
the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,226 votes
against 13,466 votes for S. J. Cumming, Democrat, serving from March
4, 1871, to March 3, 1873; was defeated as the Republican candidate
for the Forty-third Congress, receiving 13,174 votes against 15,607
votes for F. G. Bromberg, Democrat and Liberal and 7,024 votes for P.
Joseph, Republican.

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JEFFERSON F. LONG, Macon, Georgia. Took his seat Feb. 24, 1871.

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BUREAU OFFICER.

Honorable BLANCHE K. BRUCE, Register of the United States Treasury;
appointed by President James A. Garfield, 1881.

NEGROES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT.

_Hayti._--E. D. BASSETT, Pennsylvania, 1869-77.

_Hayti._--JOHN M. LANGSTON, District of Columbia, Minister Resident
and Consul-General to Hayti, 1877.

_Liberia._--J. MILTON TURNER, Missouri.

_Liberia._--JOHN H. SMYTH, North Carolina. Reappointed in 1882.

_Liberia._--HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, New York, Minister Resident and
Consul-General to Liberia.

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LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.

The following Colored men were Lieutenant-Governors during the years
of reconstruction. At the head of them all for bravery, intelligence,
and executive ability stands Governor Pinchback. One of the first men
of his race to enter the army in 1862 as captain, when the conflict
was over and his race free, he was the first Colored man in Louisiana
to enter into the work of reconstruction. He has been and is a power
in his State. He is true to his friends, but a terror to his enemies.
A sketch of his life would read like a romance.

_Louisiana._ _South Carolina._ _Mississippi._
OSCAR J. DUNN, ALONZO J. RANSIER, ALEX. DAVIS.
P. B. S. PINCHBACK, RICHARD H. GLEAVES,
C. C. ANTOINE.

INDEX.

Acvis, Capt., his opinion of John Brown, 225.

Adams, C. F., advocates the education of Negroes, 158.

Adams, John