 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,...  A Short History of the United States - Page 593by John Spencer Bassett - 1913 - 885 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting - Electronic journals - 1906 - 246 pages
...March 13, 1864 Lincoln wrote to Hahn in Louisiana : " I barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored people may not be let...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Nevertheless neither in the Louisiana nor the Arkansas nor the West Virginia government, nor in any... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...things, will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...things, will prepare and define the elective franchise. I barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let...intelligent, and especially those who have fought so gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 pages
...things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let...the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone. Yours truly, A. Lincoln. [Order.]... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 404 pages
...things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let...the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone. [Remarks on closing a sanitary... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...things, will probably define the elective franchise. l barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let...They would probably help, in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. When will the world shake off such uokes, oh, whcn... | |
 | John Eaton, Ethel Osgood Mason - Bibliography (United States. Office of Education). - 1907 - 394 pages
...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 our ranks. " They would probably help, in some future time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let...the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone. Yours truly, A. Lincoln 92. On... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - History - 1985 - 166 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 260 pages
...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... | |
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