 | John Spencer Bassett - 1913 - 950 páginas
...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...would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." When negro suffrage became a most serious... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - 1913 - 954 páginas
...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...would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." When negro suffrage became a most serious... | |
 | Horace White - 1913 - 510 páginas
...among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may...those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They will probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - 1914 - 392 páginas
...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...ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." Slowly his demands grew with the needs. In... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1903 - 470 páginas
...experiment of granting suffrage to a few selected negroes. Said he: "I barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks."18 But neither Governor Hahn, nor the Reconstruction Convention which he... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 páginas
...among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people...would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public,... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - 1985 - 166 páginas
...suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be let in [to vote] — as, for instance, the very intelligent and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." The governor proved unable to persuade the Louisiana convention to follow Lincoln's advice, but on... | |
 | Michael G. Cooke - 1986 - 260 páginas
...Bois may have been influenced by Lincoln's suggestion in 1864 that "some of the colored people may be let in, as, for instance, the very intelligent,...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Du Bois approvingly quotes this "cautious" recommendation in "Reconstruction and Its Benefits." It... | |
 | Frederick J. Blue - 1987 - 452 páginas
...possible approach. In fact, he had urged Hahn to consider giving the vote to a small number of blacks, "the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." The constitution did give the legislature the discretionary power to enfranchise blacks in the future... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...convention took up the question of voter qualifications, said Lincoln, "I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people...would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." Hahn and Banks got the message. But persuading... | |
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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,... 
