 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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... | |
 | Louisiana - 1978 - 500 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Du Bois approvingly quotes this "cautious" recommendation in "Reconstruction... | |
 | Eric L. McKitrick - Reconstrucción (Estados Unidos 1863-1877) - 1988 - 550 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." Lincoln to Michael Hahn, Mar. 13, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,... | |
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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. 
