 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 954 pages
...so extreme a step. "I barely suggest, for your private consideration," he wrote to Governor Hahn, " whether some of the colored people may not be let...ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." When negro suffrage became a most... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 950 pages
...favor so extreme a step. "I barely suggest, for your private consideration," he wrote to Governor Hahn, "whether some of the colored people may not be let...ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." When negro suffrage became a most... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 pages
...Louisiana that perhaps it were well to admit some of the coloured people " for an elective franchise, as, for instance, the very intelligent and especially...ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." Slowly his demands grew with the needs.... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - Africa - 1915 - 272 pages
...in as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who 1 Report to President Johnson. fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." Indeed, the "family of freedom" in... | |
 | Mississippi Historical Society - Mississippi - 1918 - 620 pages
...are about to have a convention which among other things will define the elective franchise, I freely suggest for your private consideration whether some...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone." The situation was now changed.... | |
 | United States - 1919 - 564 pages
...recommending the vote for the negro was in a communication to Governor Hahn of Louisiana in March, 1864: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion,... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 pages
...colored people may not be let in, as for instance the very intelligent and especially those who may have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably...future to keep the jewel of Liberty in the family of Freedom." In speaking of this letter, James G. Elaine said : "It was perhaps the earliest proposition... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...not adopted. Private Executive Mansion, Washington, March 13, 1864. Hon. Michael Hahn My dear Sir: I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history...ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion,... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - History - 1985 - 166 pages
...suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be let in [to vote] — as, for instance, the very intelligent and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." The governor proved unable to persuade the Louisiana convention to follow Lincoln's advice, but on... | |
 | Michael G. Cooke - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 260 pages
...Bois may have been influenced by Lincoln's suggestion in 1864 that "some of the colored people may be let in, as, for instance, the very intelligent,...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Du Bois approvingly quotes this "cautious" recommendation in "Reconstruction and Its Benefits." It... | |
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Now you are 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,... 
