 | William Henry Smith - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1903 - 472 pages
...are about to have a convention which among other things will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether...ranks. They would probably help in some trying time in the future to keep the jewel of Liberty in the family of Freedom. The reader will do well to keep... | |
 | Allen Caperton Braxton - African Americans - 1903 - 98 pages
...suggesting, with much misgiving, the experiment of granting suffrage to a few selected negroes. Said he: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks."18 But neither Governor Hahn, nor the Reconstruction Convention which he... | |
 | Emory Speer - Reconstruction - 1903 - 28 pages
...about to have a convention which among other things will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether...be let in, as for instance, the very intelligent, etc." It is interesting to know that the vicepresident of the confederacy entertained views similar... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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—as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our... | |
 | United States. Congress - Government publications - 1903 - 256 pages
...suggesting to Louisiana that "in defining the franchise some of the colored people might be let in," saying: "They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." In 1857 he avowed himself "not in favor of" what he improperly called "negro... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...hitherto by the military Governor of Louisiana." Privately, Lincoln wrote to Mr. Hahn (March I5th, 1864): They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone. Probably... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - African Americans - 1904 - 352 pages
...on March 13, 1864, in his letter to his provisional governor in Louisiana, Governor Hahn, he said: " I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...very intelligent and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks." Of the thirty-four States which formed the Union in January, 1861, thirty... | |
 | Peter Joseph Hamilton - History - 1905 - 654 pages
...that as Louisiana was about to have a convention which would probably define the elective franchise, "I barely suggest for your private consideration,...trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone." An election... | |
 | William Albert Sinclair - African Americans - 1905 - 396 pages
...Louisiana, Lincoln wrote in March, 1864, advising that the ballot should be given to the colored men : " Let in, as for instance, the very intelligent, and...ranks. They would probably help in some trying time in the future to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.'' This was probably the first... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 412 pages
...to Louisiana, that "in defining the franchise some of the colored people might be let in," saying: "They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." In 1857 he avowed himself "not in favor of" what he improperly called "negro... | |
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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. 
