 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,...  The Iowa Historical Record - Page 2861893Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1919 - 564 pages
...recommending the vote for the negro was in a communication to Governor Hahn of Louisiana in March, 1864: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration, 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... | |
 | Matthew Page Andrews - United States - 1920 - 508 pages
..."Journal," President Lincoln wrote to Governor Hahn, in Miss LeGrand's own State of Louisiana: "I would barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be let in" to the privilege of suffrage. Again, he declared: "While I am in favor of freedom to all... | |
 | Yates Snowden, Harry Gardner Cutler - South Carolina - 1920 - 628 pages
..."Now, you are about to have a convention, which * * * 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 and especially those who have fought gallantly in... | |
 | African Americans - 1922 - 516 pages
...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, and especially those who have fought gallantly in... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...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, and especially those who have fought gallantly... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 1214 pages
...have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define tie elective franchise. I merely suggest for your private consideration 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 564 pages
...have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I merely suggest for your private consideration 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... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 232 pages
...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 and especially those who may have fought gallantly... | |
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