 | William Harrison Lambert - 1914 - 684 páginas
...congratulate you having fi.red your name in history as the first free- state Governor of Louisiana . . • . 1 barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be left in" [allowed to vote], etc. This letter has been submitted to several authorities and all agree... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1915 - 272 páginas
...seemed not only just, but almost inevitable. Lincoln, in 1864, "cautiously" suggested to Louisiana's private consideration "whether some of the colored...instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who 1 Report to President Johnson. fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying... | |
 | Mississippi Historical Society - 1918 - 620 páginas
...are about to have a convention which among other things will define the elective franchise, I freely suggest for your private consideration whether some...the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone."... | |
 | Delilah Leontium Beasley - 1919 - 342 páginas
..."First Free State Governor of Louisiana," proceeded to say: "Now you are about to have a convention which among other things will probably define the...the very intelligent and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They will probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the 'Jewel... | |
 | 1919 - 564 páginas
...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,...the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 564 páginas
...have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I merely suggest for your private consideration whether some...the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come to keep the jewel... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 548 páginas
...have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I merely suggest for your private consideration whether some...the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come to keep the jewel... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1959 - 1214 páginas
...have a convention, which, among other things, will probably define tie elective franchise. I merely suggest for your private consideration whether some...the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come to keep the jewel... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - 1914 - 232 páginas
...name in history as the first free-state Governor of Louisiana. Now you are about to have a convention which among other things will probably define the...instance the very intelligent and especially those who may have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time in the future... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1903 - 470 páginas
...suggesting, with much misgiving, the experiment of granting suffrage to a few selected negroes. Said he: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration,...the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks."18 But neither Governor Hahn, nor the Reconstruction Convention which... | |
| |
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,... 
