 | Eric Foner - History - 2010 - 322 pages
...constitutional convention: "I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people not be let in — as for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. . . . But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone."... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 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... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...the first-free-state Governor of Louisiana," he asked "whether some of the colored people . . . — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks" should be permitted to vote. That would help "to keep the jewel of liberty... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1964 - 496 pages
...consideration," wrote the president, "whether some of the colored people may not be let in [to the suffrage] — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks."18 This idea of a qualified Negro suffrage was gaining considerable support... | |
 | James Gill - Carnival - 1997 - 316 pages
...males, although Lincoln himself had asked Hahn to consider "whether some of the colored people may be let in; as, for instance, the very intelligent and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." The convention did, however, leave the way open for the legislature "to pass... | |
 | David W. Blight, Brooks D. Simpson - History - 1997 - 260 pages
...Louisiana in March 1864, "whether some of the colored people may not be let in [to the suffrage] — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help," he added, "in some trying times to come, to keep... | |
 | Caryn Cossé Bell - History - 1997 - 348 pages
...consideration," the president wrote, "whether some of the colored people may not be let in [granted suffrage] — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." The president's recommendation notwithstanding, the constitutional convention,... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...the forthcoming constitutional convention "some of the colored people" might be granted the suffrage, "as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." But even this modest suggestion was rejected. cepts from the Book of Books,... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - History - 1998 - 772 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 in the future to keep the jewel... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest to your private consideration, whether some of the colored...instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel... | |
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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. 
