Brevet Major-General E. R. S. Canby, Commanding 2d Military District of South Carolina issued orders for the delegates to assemble in convention at Charleston, S.C., January 14, 1868. The Convention composed of 124 delegates, a large majority being colored, met at Charleston, on the date named. T. J. Robertson, white, was elected temporary President and Dr. A. G. Mackey, white, was elected permanent President. W. J. McKinlay and H. E. Hayne were elected temporary Secretary and Assistant Secretary, respectively. General Carlos J. Stalbrand, white, was elected permanent Secretary. Josephus Woodruff, white, compiled the proceedings. John R. Pinckney and Peter Miller were elected Sergeants-at-Arms. F. L. Cardozo was Chairman of the Committee on Education. S. A. Swails, Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Regulations. Robert C. DeLarge, Chairman of the Committee on Franchise and Elections. Colored members were on all of the Committees, in most cases being in the majority. In looking over the proceedings I find that the following named delegates took a very active part in all of the deliberations: R. B. Elliott, R. C. DeLarge, F. L. Cardozo, J. J. Wright, W. J. Whipper, W. J. McKinlay, S. A. Swails, A. J. Ransier, R. H. Cain, B. F. Randolph, and W. B. Nash. The Constitution provided for the election of Senators and Representatives on April 14, 15 and 16, 1868, to assemble at Columbia, May 12, 1868. The Convention adjourned sine die March 14, 1868. The Constitution adopted in 1868 stood unchanged until 1895 when a Convention was called to meet at Columbia, on September 10, 1895, to revise it. The fact that the old Constitution stood for nineteen years after the Democratic party came into power (1876) shows that there could not have been anything objectionable in it to the Democrats or they would have changed it immediately after regaining control. It speaks volumes for the wisdom and foresight of the men of the Reconstruction Period. In the Convention which met at Columbia in 1895, there were only five colored delegates and they were all from Beaufort County, a county which has very few white persons in it. The delegates were W. J. Whipper, Robert Smalls, Thomas E. Miller, James Wigg, and L. R. Reed. Of these, W. J. Whipper and Robert Smalls were delegates to the Constitutional Convention which met at Charleston in 1868. As General Smalls died only about two or three years ago what a wealth of information he could have furnished pertaining to the Reconstruction Period had your request been sent out before his death. Inclosure 2 contains the names of State Senators and the counties they represented. In several cases of Senators and also of Members of the House of Representatives I cannot recall their initials. There were 32 senators, the majority being colored, of whom the following were conspicuous for their activity on all important legislation: