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" I barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in, as for instance the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. "
The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States - Page 62
by Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1919 - 322 pages
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 94

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Periodicals - 1897 - 1042 pages
...t to ha ve a con vention, which , among other things, will probably define the elective franchise, I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...some trying time to come to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." Probably this was the first suggestion of its kind from the President. In...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 94

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Periodicals - 1897 - 1142 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise, I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...some trying time to come to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." Probably this was the first suggestion of its kind from the President. In...
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Charles Sumner; His Complete Works: With Introduction by Hon ..., Volume 12

Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 434 pages
...death. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Crosby' i life of Lincoln, p. 33. They [colored people having the ballot] would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of Liberty in the family of Freedom — IBID., Letter to Michael Bahn, of Lomaana, March 13, 1864: McPKerxm't...
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1861-1895

Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 760 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel...
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The Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 3

Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel...
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A History of the American People

Francis Newton Thorpe - United States - 1901 - 668 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...whether some of the colored people may not be let in; for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They...
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Abraham Lincoln

William Eleroy Curtis - Presidents - 1902 - 476 pages
...to have a convention which, among other things, will probably define the 22 337 elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether...trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty safe within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion — not to the public, but to you...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: His Early History, Political Career, Speeches in ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...and especially those who have fought gallantly in ~ur ranks. They would probably help, in Bonie trying tim« to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in...
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Political Science Quarterly, Volume 17

Electronic journals - 1902 - 776 pages
...subject of suffrage in the pending constitutional convention in that state, the President said : " I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks" (III, 86). Had such prudent counsels prevailed later we might have been...
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Abraham Lincoln: With Twenty-four Illustrations

William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...to have a convention which, among other things, will probably define the 22 337 elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be let in,—as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our...
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