The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 452, July 1894, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers I want you to furnish me with all the information possible, both as to the plan of your institution and the results obtained. I want it to use in my speech before congress in advocacy ~of] my bill. Please forward my cut at the earliest possible moment to Mr. l. J. Washington Beaufort S.C. Tender my kindest regards to the madame. I am very truly yours Geo. W. Murray ALS Con. 7 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. In another hand is the note: ''Ans. Cut was retd to the Freeman.'' ~ George Washington Murray (~853-~9~6) was born a slave at Rembert, Sumter County, S.C. Orphaned after the Civil War, he secured an education and taught school for fifteen years. He attended the University of South Carolina from 1874 to 1876. He was defeated for the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1884. In 1888 he became chairman of the Republican party in Sumter County. For two years, 1 o-9~, he was inspector of customs for the port of Charleston. Closely associated with the Colored Farmers' Alliance, he rose from the ranks to defeat two veteran politicians, one of whom was Robert Smalls, for the congressional nomination in 189~. He then went on to win the congressional seat on a free silver platform. In 18aa he lost the election to William Elliott. but he success, _ ~ . , fully contested it and regained his seat early in 1896, only to lose it again in the elections of 1896 and 1898. He returned to Sumter County as a farmer and realestate dealer. Convicted of forgery in 1904 or 1905, he fled to Chicago, where he remained until his death. He was often referred to as ''the Republican Black Eagle.'' (Tindall, South Carolina Negroes, 56-58.) From Thomas McCants Stewart, Jr.2 Tuskegee, Ala. July ~ Seth 1894 Dear Prof. Washington: Conserning the trouble which ~ have lately had, I fee] as if it is no more than simply my duty as doing justic to myself that I may obtain justic and not only that but because it is my duty to let you know of such that happens to me while here. However I fee] safe in saying that should you have been here we would have gotten justic and everything been done in a just way. But the faculty has ered in many ways which I shall try to the best of my ability to do. Where the trouble first started was from a pan of water which was put over the door for another boy and Mr. Penny while slipping around caught it that is came in the door, and the water fell on him, thus; 452