 | John Martin Vincent - Administrative responsibility - 1911 - 606 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 in the future to keep the jewel of Liberty in the family of Freedom."3 Two years later... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 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...instance, the very intelligent, and especially those 20 who have fought gallantly in our ranks. "They would probably help, in some trying time to come,... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 950 pages
...favor so extreme a step. "I barely suggest, for your private consideration," he wrote to Governor Hahn, "whether some of the colored people may not be let...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." When negro suffrage... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 954 pages
...so extreme a step. "I barely suggest, for your private consideration," he wrote to Governor Hahn, " whether some of the colored people may not be let...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." When negro suffrage... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 pages
...Louisiana that perhaps it were well to admit some of the coloured people " for an elective franchise, as, for instance, the very intelligent and especially...gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." Slowly his demands grew... | |
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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,... 
