 | Eric Foner - History - 2002 - 742 pages
...day after they met with Lincoln, the President wrote Governor Hahn concerning the coming 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... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...whom he described as "the first-free-state Governor of Louisiana," Lincoln had discreetly written, "I barely suggest for your private consideration,...whether some of the colored people may not be let in [given the right to vote] — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...free-state governor of Louisiana, "whether some of the colored people may not be let in" to voting rights, "as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." But as much as he was willing to concede to Ward Hill Lamon "the justice of the measure," he wondered... | |
 | Louisiana - 2003 - 552 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...new free-state governor, Lincoln wrote him a letter, less for the purpose of congratulation than to "barely suggest for your private consideration, whether...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Hahn did not take the hint; the state constitutional convention that followed in April obediently eliminated... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - History - 2004 - 348 pages
...Lincoln had written to the newly elected "loyal" governor of Louisiana: "I barely suggest for your consideration whether some of the colored people may...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." The Radicals countered in early July by passing the Wade-Davis bill (named after Senator Benjamin Wade... | |
 | Frank Moore - 2006 - 808 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| |
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,... 
