 | Michael A. Ross - 2003 - 356 páginas
...African Americans should have the right to vote. "I myself prefer," he said of black suffrage, "that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." Whether he would have insisted that black voting rights be a part of Reconstruction is a question that... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 páginas
...given to the colored man" in Louisiana, and the some included himself. "I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." 4* The question was not whether Louisiana's constitution was perfect but whether it contained the potential... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 páginas
...to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers. Still the question is not whether the Louisiana government, as it stands, is quite all that is desirable.... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 páginas
...to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers. [Complete Works, 2:675] 66. "Ye shall do no injustice in rendering a judicial decision. Thou shalt... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2005 - 410 páginas
...given to the colored man" in Louisiana, and the some included himself. "I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers."44 The question was not whether Louisiana's constitution was perfect but whether it contained... | |
 | Charles Bracelen Flood - 2005 - 508 páginas
...right to vote, Lincoln was at the moment for being selective: "I would myself prefer that it now were conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." The mist turned to rain; before Lincoln finished speaking, a considerable number of the crowd drifted away.... | |
 | Jerrold M. Packard - 2005 - 326 páginas
...to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers."20 It was a remarkable comment insofar as no American president had ever before publicly... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 páginas
...that the elective franchise is not [already] given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." Lincoln made the big announcement at last, in a low-key manner — he would favor the extension of... | |
 | John Albert Murley, Sean D. Sutton - 2006 - 280 páginas
...franchise" should be immediately conferred on some of the recently-emancipated slaves — that is, "on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers."132 For the President of the United States thus to dare to treat such men as truly human... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 páginas
...following Lee's surrender. Lincoln said, concerning the black man's right to vote, "/ would prefer myself that [the vote] were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers. " Hearing those words, Booth said aloud, "That means nigger citizenship. That is the last speech he... | |
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It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers. 
