South Carolina's 1868 Radical Members of the Legislature

South Carolina's 1868 Radical Members of the Legislature

Row 5

Burton, Barney row 5, 3rd. from left, delagate to the 1868 Convention

Hayne, Henry E. row 5, 9th from left delegate to the 1868 Convention, South Carolina Secretary of State, first black student to attend USC

Henderson, James A. row 5, 7th from left, delegate to the 1868 Convention

Hutson, James row 5 11th from left

Mickey, Edward C. row 5, 6th from left, Charleston County

Mobley, Junius S. row 5, 10th from left

Nash, William B. row 5, 12th from left delegate to the 1868 Convention, President of the Board os Regents of the Lunatic Asylum in 1874 and School Book Commissioner. After the Emancipation, Nash appealed to the consciousness of mankind with the following statement: I believe, my friend and fellow citizens, we are not prepared for this suffrage, but we can learn. Give a man tools and let him commence to use them, and in time he will learn a trade. So it is with this voting. We may not understand it at the start, but in time we shall learn to do our duty....We recognize the Southern white man as a true friend of the black man. You see upon that banner, United we stand, divided we fall and if you could see the scroll of that society that banner represents, you would see the white man and the black man standing with their arms locked together, as a type of friendship and the Union we desire. It is not our desire to be a discordent element in the community, or to unite the poor with the rich... the black man has the labor, the white man the capital and labor is worth nothing without capital. We must create capital by restoring confidence, and we can only secure confidence by selecting proper men to fill our public offices. Richland County. Biographical sketch can be found in Dr. L. C. Bryant's, Negro Senators and Representatives in the South Carolina Legislature 1868 - 1902..1968

Shrewsbury, Henry L. row 5, 5th from left, delegate to the 1868 Convention

White, John Hannibal row 5, 2nd from left, delegate to the 1868 Convention, YorkCounty