 | 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,...especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks." Of the thirty-four States which formed the Union in January, 1861, thirty excluded Negroes... | |
 | 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,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of... | |
 | 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 especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time in the future to keep the jewel... | |
 | Bessie Pullen-Burry - African Americans - 1905 - 296 pages
...private consideration whether some of the coloured people may not be let in, as for 202 ETHIOPIA IN EXILE instance the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks." His successor, Johnson, held his views, but some of his utterances were misconstrued, and in... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...HON. MICHAEL HAHN. a convention, which among other things will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether...intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of... | |
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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. 
