 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 470 pages
...suggesting, with much misgiving, the experiment of granting suffrage to a few selected negroes. Said he: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks."18 But neither Governor Hahn, nor the Reconstruction Convention which he... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...Governor of Louisiana. Now you are about to have a Convention which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for...gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only... | |
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Now you are about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent,... 
