| 词条 | Hiram Rhodes Revels |
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| name = Hiram Revels | image = Hiram Rhodes Revels - Brady-Handy-(restored).png | jr/sr = United States Senator | state = Mississippi | term_start = February 23, 1870 | term_end = March 3, 1871 | predecessor = Albert G. Brown | successor = James L. Alcorn | birth_name = Hiram Rhodes Revels | birth_date = {{birth date|1827|9|27}} | birth_place = Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1901|1|16|1827|9|27}} | death_place = Aberdeen, Mississippi, U.S. | party = Republican | spouse = Phoebe Bass | children = 8 | education = Beech Grove Quaker Seminary Darke County Seminary Knox College | allegiance = {{flag|United States|1863}} {{*}}Union | branch = {{Dodseal|Board|21}} Union Army | serviceyears = 1863–1865 | unit = Chaplain Corps | battles = American Civil War }} Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827[1] – January 16, 1901) was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress when he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era. During the American Civil War, Revels had helped organize two regiments of the United States Colored Troops and served as a chaplain. After serving in the Senate, Revels was appointed as the first president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) and served from 1871 to 1873 and 1876 to 1882. Later in his life, he served again as a minister. Early life and educationRevels was born free in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to free people of color. His parents were of African, European, and Native American ancestry. His mother was of Scottish descent and his father was a Baptist preacher.[2] He was taught by a local black woman for his early education. In 1838 he went to live with his older brother, Elias B. Revels, in Lincolnton, North Carolina, and was apprenticed as a barber in his brother's shop. Barbering was a respectable trade in this period, as men of all races used barbers.{{explain|date=February 2019}} After Elias Revels died in 1841, his widow Mary transferred the shop to Hiram before she remarried.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}} Revels attended the Union County Quaker Seminary in Indiana, and Darke County Seminary in Ohio.[2] He was a second cousin to Lewis Sheridan Leary, one of the men who was killed taking part in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and to North Carolina lawyer and politician John S. Leary.[3] In 1845 Revels was ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME); he served as a preacher and religious teacher throughout the Midwest: in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, and Kansas.[2] "At times, I met with a great deal of opposition," he later recalled. "I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence."[4] During these years, he voted in Ohio. He studied religion from 1855 to 1857 at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He became a minister in a Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also served as a principal for a black high school.[5] As a chaplain in the United States Army, Revels helped recruit and organize two black Union regiments in Maryland and Missouri during the Civil War. He took part at the battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi.[6] Political careerIn 1865, Revels left the AME Church and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was assigned briefly to churches in Leavenworth, Kansas, and New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1866, he was called as a permanent pastor at a church in Natchez, Mississippi, where he settled with his wife and five daughters. He became an elder in the Mississippi District of the Methodist Church,[5] continued his ministerial work, and founded schools for black children. During Reconstruction, Revels was elected alderman in Natchez in 1878. In 1869 he was elected to represent Adams County in the Mississippi State Senate. As the Congressman John R. Lynch later wrote of him in his book on Reconstruction: Revels was comparatively a new man in the community. He had recently been stationed at Natchez as pastor in charge of the A.M.E. Church, and so far as known he had never voted, had never attended a political meeting, and of course, had never made a political speech. But he was a colored man, and presumed to be a Republican, and believed to be a man of ability and considerably above the average in point of intelligence; just the man, it was thought, the Rev. Noah Buchanan would be willing to vote for.[7] In January 1870, Revels presented the opening prayer in the state legislature. Lynch wrote, That prayer—one of the most impressive and eloquent prayers that had ever been delivered in the [Mississippi] Senate Chamber—made Revels a United States Senator. He made a profound impression upon all who heard him. It impressed those who heard it that Revels was not only a man of great natural ability but that he was also a man of superior attainments.[7] Election to SenateWhen Revels arrived in Washington, D.C., southern Democrats opposed seating him in the Senate. For the two days of debate, the Senate galleries were packed with spectators at this historic event.[9] The Democrats based their opposition on the 1857 Dred Scott Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that people of African ancestry were not and could not be citizens. They argued that no black man was a citizen before the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, and thus Revels could not satisfy the requirement of the Senate for nine years' prior citizenship.[14] Supporters of Revels made arguments from the relatively narrow and technical to fundamental arguments about the meaning of the Civil War. Among the narrower arguments was that Revels was of primarily European ancestry (an "octoroon") and that the Dred Scott Decision ought to be read to apply only to those blacks who were of totally African ancestry. Supporters argued that Revels had long been a citizen (and had voted in Ohio) and that he had met the nine-year requirement before the Dred Scott decision changed the rules and held that blacks could not be citizens.[10] The more fundamental arguments by Revels supporters boiled down to this idea: that the Civil War, and the Reconstruction Amendments, had overturned Dred Scott. The meaning of the war, and also of the Amendments, was that the subordination of the black race was no longer part of the American constitutional regime and that it would be unconstitutional to bar Revels on the basis of the pre-Civil War Constitution's racist citizenship rules.[10] One Republican Senator supporting Revels mocked opponents as still fighting the "last battle-field" of that War.[10] Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner said, "The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators."[14] Sumner, a Republican, later said, "All men are created equal, says the great Declaration, and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality. ... The Declaration was only half established by Independence. The greatest duty remained behind. In assuring the equal rights of all we complete the work."[11] On February 25, 1870, Revels, on a party-line vote of 48 to 8, with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats voting against, became the first African American to be seated in the United States Senate.[12] Everyone in the galleries stood to see him sworn in.[9] Sumner's Massachusetts colleague, Henry Wilson, defended Revels's election,[13] and presented as evidence of its validity signatures from the clerks of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi State Senate, as well as that of Adelbert Ames, the military Governor of Mississippi.[14] Wilson argued that Revels's skin color was not a bar to Senate service, and connected the role of the Senate to Christianity's Golden Rule of doing to others as one would have done to oneself.[14] U.S. SenatorRevels advocated compromise and moderation. He vigorously supported racial equality and worked to reassure his fellow senators about the capability of African Americans. In his maiden speech to the Senate on March 16, 1870, he argued for the reinstatement of the black legislators of the Georgia General Assembly, who had been illegally ousted by white Democratic Party representatives. He said, "I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow citizens."[15] He served on both the Committee of Education and Labor and the Committee on the District of Columbia. (At the time, the Congress administered the District.) Much of the Senate's attention focused on Reconstruction issues. While Radical Republicans called for continued punishment of ex-Confederates, Revels argued for amnesty and a restoration of full citizenship, provided they swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.[16] Revels' term lasted one year, February 1870 to March 3, 1871. He quietly, persistently—although for the most part unsuccessfully—worked for equality. He spoke against an amendment proposed by Senator Allen G. Thurman (D-Ohio) to keep the schools of Washington, D.C., segregated. He nominated a young black man to the United States Military Academy; the youth was subsequently denied admission. Revels successfully championed the cause of black workers who had been barred by their color from working at the Washington Navy Yard.[16] The northern press praised Revels for his oratorical abilities. His conduct in the Senate, along with that of the other black Americans who had been seated in the House of Representatives, prompted a white Congressman, James G. Blaine, to write in his memoir, "The colored men who took their seats in both Senate and House were as a rule studious, earnest, ambitious men, whose public conduct would be honorable to any race."[17] Revels supported bills to invest in developing infrastructure in Mississippi: to grant lands and right of way to aid the construction of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad (41st Congress 2nd Session S. 712), and levees on the Mississippi river (41st Congress 3rd Session S. 1136).[12] He argued for integration of schools in the District of Columbia.[5] College presidentRevels accepted in 1871, after his term as U.S. Senator expired, appointment as the first president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University), a historically black college located in Claiborne County, Mississippi. He taught philosophy as well. In 1873, Revels took a leave of absence from Alcorn to serve as Mississippi's secretary of state ad interim. He was dismissed from Alcorn in 1874 when he campaigned against the reelection of Governor of Mississippi Adelbert Ames. He was reappointed in 1876 by the new Democratic administration and served until his retirement in 1882[16] On November 6, 1875, Revels wrote a letter to fellow Republican and President Ulysses S. Grant that was widely reprinted. Revels denounced Ames and the carpetbaggers for manipulating the black vote for personal benefit, and for keeping alive wartime hatreds:[18] Since reconstruction, the masses of my people have been, as it were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled adventurers, who, caring nothing for country, were willing to stoop to anything no matter how infamous, to secure power to themselves, and perpetuate it. ... . My people have been told by these schemers, when men have been placed on the ticket who were notoriously corrupt and dishonest, that they must vote for them; that the salvation of the party depended upon it; that the man who scratched a ticket was not a Republican. This is only one of the many means these unprincipled demagogues have devised to perpetuate the intellectual bondage of my people. ... The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this state, except perhaps in some localities, and would have long since been entirely obliterated, were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitterness of the past, and inculcate a hatred between the races, in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office, and its emoluments, to control my people, the effect of which is to degrade them. Revels remained active as a Methodist Episcopal minister in Holly Springs, Mississippi and became an elder in the Upper Mississippi District.[5] For a time, he served as editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the Methodist Church. He taught theology at Shaw College (now Rust College), a historically black college founded in 1866 in Holly Springs. Hiram Revels died on January 16, 1901, while attending a church conference in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He was buried at the Hillcrest Cemetery in Holly Springs, Mississippi.[19] LegacyRevels' daughter Susie Revels Cayton edited a newspaper in Seattle, Washington. Among his grandsons were Horace R. Cayton, Jr., co-author of Black Metropolis, and Revels Cayton, a labor leader.[20] In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Hiram Rhodes Revels as one of 100 Greatest African Americans.[21] See also{{Portal|Biography}}
Notes1. ^Different sources list his birth year as either 1827 or 1822. 2. ^1 {{CongBio|R000166}} 3. ^Oates, John Alexander. The Story of Fayetteville and the Upper Cape Fear. Dowd Press, 1950. p714 4. ^Aaseng, Nathan. African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of African Americans. Infobase Publishing, May 14, 2014. p 189-191 5. ^1 2 3 "Hiram Rhodes Revels", Robinson Library, 2011, accessed October 17, 2014 6. ^[https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/Photo_Exhibit_African_American_Senators.htm U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Photo Exhibit] at www.senate.gov 7. ^1 {{Gutenberg|bullet=none| no=16158 |author= John R. Lynch |name= The Facts of Reconstruction|chapter=Chapter III| url= http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16158/16158-h/16158-h.htm#CHAPTER_III| accessdate=2012-11-01| quote=}} 8. ^{{cite web | url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000900 | title=BROWN, Albert Gallatin – Biographical Information | publisher=U.S. Congress | accessdate=July 25, 2012}} 9. ^1 [https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0225.html "The Colored Member Admitted to His Seat in the Senate"], New York Times, February 25, 1870, accessed October 10, 2012 10. ^1 2 Richard Primus, "The Riddle of Hiram Revels", 119 Harvard Law Review 1680 (2006) 11. ^Congressional Globe, Senate, 41st Cong., 2nd sess. (February 25, 1870): 1567. 12. ^1 2 3 {{cite web | url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_African_American_Senator.htm | title=First African American Senator | publisher=U.S. Senate | accessdate=July 25, 2012}} 13. ^{{cite book |last=Myers |first=John L. |date=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NewlAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Henry+Wilson+and+the+Era+of+Reconstruction+myers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIjquDxNr_yAIVxDg-Ch2T2wEI#v=onepage&q=Henry%20Wilson%20and%20the%20Era%20of%20Reconstruction%20myers&f=false |title=Henry Wilson and the Era of Reconstruction |publisher=University Press of America, Inc. |location=Lanham, MD |page=129 |isbn=0-7618-4742-1}} 14. ^1 Myers 2009, p. 129 15. ^Ploski 18. 16. ^1 2 3 REVELS, Hiram Rhodes. History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives. http://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/REVELS,-Hiram-Rhodes-(R000166)/ 17. ^Blaine, Twenty Years in Congress 18. ^full text in James Wilford Garner. Reconstruction in Mississippi (1901) pp. 399–400. 19. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?FScemeteryid=59893&page=cem |title= Browse by Cemetery: Hill Crest Cemetery | website = Find a Grave |access-date= September 12, 2015}} 20. ^Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction. 1996. Revised. {{ISBN|0-8071-2082-0}}. p. 181. 21. ^Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books. {{ISBN|1-57392-963-8}}. ReferencesCitations{{reflist|30em}}Primary sources{{refbegin}}
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