 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. l barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether...gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. When will the world shake... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 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...especially those who have fought gallantly in our janks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the... | |
 | William Alexander MacCorkle - African Americans - 1908 - 344 pages
...Governor Hahn says: " Now, you are about to have a convention which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for...consideration whether some of the colored people may not be allowed in, as for instance the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in... | |
 | William Alexander MacCorkle - African Americans - 1908 - 344 pages
...barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be allowed in, as for instance the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. ' ' Mr. Sumner believed in Negro suffrage only for the reason that "their votes are needed in the North... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1909 - 406 pages
...: " Now, you are about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the IS elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private...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... | |
 | 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...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 the rest of the country... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1910 - 1012 pages
...suffrage seemed not only just but almost inevitable. Lincoln in 1864 "cautiously suggested" to Louisiana's private consideration, " whether some of the colored...gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom."0 Indeed, the " family... | |
 | 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...gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom."8 Indeed, the " family... | |
 | 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 amendment to the Constitution... | |
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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,... 
