of Representatives: Abbeville Co.--Everett Cain, H. A. Wideman,
Aiken Co.--Gloster H. Holland, W. B. Jones Barnwell Co.--B. W.
Middleton, E. M. Sumpter Charleston Co.--R. B. Artson, P. P.
Hedges, J. J. Hardy, J. J. Grant, J. W. Lloyd, C. F. North, Lewis
Simmons Chester Co.--Ceasar Simmons Colleton Co.--Sherman Smalls,
R. S. Tarlton Edgefield Co.--David Graham, Augustus Simpkins
Georgetown Co.--Charles H. Sperry Kershaw Co.--Frank Adamson
Laurens Co.--James Young Marion Co.--William A. Hayne Marlboro
Co.--Jacob Allman Newberry Co.--Isham Greenwood Orangeburg
Co.--John Dix, Abram Dannerly, H. Reilly Sumter Co.--W. W.
Ramsey, J. C. Wilson Williamsburg Co.--Fortune Giles, E. H.
Gourdin, Thomas Pressley

Relative to Hon. J. H. Rainey I would state that he was the only
Negro Congressman who presided over the U. S. House of
Representatives. That courtesy was extended to him by Speaker
James G. Blaine.

The following may be interesting in connection with Senator W. B.
Nash:

"It is not too much to say that the leading man of the
Republican party in the Senate is Beverly Nash, a man wholly
black. He is apparently consulted more and appealed to more,
in the business of the body, than any man in it. It is
admitted by his white opposition colleagues that he has more
native ability than half the white men in the State" _The
Prostrate State_--J. S. Pike.

"Beverley Nash of Columbia is probably the foremost Negro in
the State. He has made many speeches, which, homely in
manner, have, nevertheless, a subsoil of strong common
sense. He has been employed by the Military authorities from
time to time in aiding, by "moral suasion" to preserve
peace; is about 45 years of age; was formerly a hotel
servant in Columbia where he still resides. Some months ago,
on the same platform with Gen. Wade Hampton and other
distinguished citizens he made a speech to the colored
people recommending qualified suffrage; but subsequently was
obliged by high-pressure to recant, and to set himself right
has since become intensely radical. His idea now is that the
Negro is entitled to everything the white man enjoys--an
opinion which has been encouraged by his appoint