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The Charleston News
Thursday, 10 November, 1870

         MR. JOSEPH H. RAINEY, the member elect from the First
       District, is a bright mullato, and was born in George-
       town, in this State. Some years ago he was a barber at
       the Mills House, in this city. During the war, he made
       several trips as steward on a blockade-running steamer,
       and, unless we are misinformed, used to boast of the
       alacrity with which he "dug dirt" on the fortifications
       thrown up to impede the advances of the Federal soldiery.
       RAINEY was a member of the Constitutional Convention of
       1868, and served as senator from Georgetown in the last
       General Assembly. As an intelligent man, of so-called
       moderate views, he would have been supported by the
       whites in the First Congetional District had he not
       broken out in a violent eruption of abuse early in the
       canvass. This led to the nomination of a Reform candi-
       date, COLONEL DUDLEY, who made a gallant and honorable
       fight against tremendous odds.
       
         MR. R. C. DeLARGE, the member elect from the Second
       District, is a bright mullato, and a native of Charles-
       ton. During the war he, like RAIMEY, had a finder in
       the blockade-running pie, and after the war became a
       member of the Constitutional Convention and a repre-
       sentative from Charleston in the State Legislature,
       where he served as chairman of the Committee on Ways
       and Means. MR. DeLARGE is a quick and ready debator,
       and with ELLIOTT, the member elect from the Third
       District, ruled the Lower House with a rod of iron.
       The contest between DeLARGE and the HON. C. C. BOWEN
       had promised to do wonders for the Reformers, who had
       no Congressional candidate in the field, provided that
       he received the support of the Reform party, he was
       voted for very generally by the white people of the
       district. When it was learned that MR. BOWEN, if he
       promised anything, had done nothing, it was a commonly
       expressed wish that DeLARGE might carry the day, and
       we believe that the announcement of his election has
       caused much satisfaction.
       
         MR. R. B. ELLIOTT, the member elect from the Third
       District, is a black man, who hails from Massachusetts,
       and made his appearance in this State after the "Union
       came in." He is said to be a man of large brain, and
       it is much better for South Carolina to have him in
       Washington than in the State Legislature, where he has
       served for two years. ELLIOTT is regarded as one of
       the boldest Radicals in the State, and a bitter hater
       of the white race. The atmospheric influences of the
       Federal capital and PRESIDENT GRANT'S little dinners
       may, perchance, tone him down.
       
         MR. A. S. WALLACE, the member elect from the Fourth
       District, is a white man - a native of the State. So
       much the worse for him and for us.
       
         To sum up: the South Carolina delegation in the next
       Congress, will consist of two native mulattoes, one
       imported black man and one white renegade.
       
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