 | Electronic journals - 1902 - 776 pages
...subject of suffrage in the pending constitutional convention in that state, the President said : " I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks" (III, 86). Had such prudent counsels prevailed later we might have been... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...Now, you are about to have a convention which, among other things, will probably define the 22 337 elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private...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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 478 pages
...Louisiana, and saying, " 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 safe within the family of freedom. But this... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 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... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1903 - 476 pages
...Hahn, had said : And 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. The reader will... | |
 | Allen Caperton Braxton - African Americans - 1903 - 98 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... | |
 | Emory Speer - Reconstruction - 1903 - 28 pages
...Louisiana. Mr. Lincoln wrote, "You are about to have a convention which among other things will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for...be let in, as for instance, the very intelligent, etc." It is interesting to know that the vicepresident of the confederacy entertained views similar... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - African Americans - 1904 - 352 pages
...on March 13, 1864, in his letter to his provisional governor in Louisiana, Governor Hahn, he said: " I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...very intelligent and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks." Of the thirty-four States which formed the Union in January, 1861, thirty... | |
 | Charles Landon Carter Minor - 1904 - 246 pages
...reads as follows: "Now you are about to have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for...whether some of the colored people may not be let in." Nicolay and Hay (Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IX., p. 436, et seq.) describe the process of making a loyal... | |
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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,... 
