 | Allen Johnson - United States - 1919 - 346 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,...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... | |
 | Yates Snowden, Harry Gardner Cutler - South Carolina - 1920 - 632 pages
..."Now, you are about to have a convention, which * * * will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...very intelligent and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." What is known as "the Presidential Doctrine" was of gradual development. President... | |
 | African Americans - 1922 - 516 pages
...about to have a convention, which among other things, will 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1923 - 98 pages
...suffrage to a few selected negroes. Said he: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether i some of the colored people may not be let in; as,...especially those •who have fought so gallantly in our ranks." " But neither Governor Hahn, nor the reconstruction convention which he assembled, saw fit... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1921 - 1018 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...about to have 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... | |
 | Geography - 1960 - 1328 pages
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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. 
