 | William Alexander MacCorkle - African Americans - 1908 - 344 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 liberty... | |
 | 1909 - 998 pages
...gained beyond the proposal of Lincoln in 1864, in his well-known letter to Governor Hahn of Louisiana: "I barely suggest for your private consideration whether...intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." One of the few things which seem to be certain about the race problem is that... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1909 - 406 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the IS 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... | |
 | History - 1910 - 1016 pages
...seemed not only just but almost inevitable. Lincoln in 1864 " cautiously suggested " to Louisiana's private consideration, " whether some of the colored...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... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Fugitive slaves - 1910 - 560 pages
...hereby suggest . . . whether some of the colored people might not be let in [to the elective franchise], as for instance the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Governor Orr of South Carolina, one of the Southern leaders, approved of an... | |
 | John Martin Vincent - Administrative responsibility - 1911 - 606 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether...instance, the very intelligent, and especially those 20 who have fought gallantly in our ranks. "They would probably help, in some trying time to come,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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. 
