 | Robert Franklin Durden - 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 - 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... | |
 | Frederick J. Blue - 1987 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...forthcoming convention took up the question of voter qualifications, said Lincoln, "I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored...trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." Hahn and Banks got the message. But persuading a convention of Louisiana... | |
 | Eric L. McKitrick - 1988 - 550 pages
...convention which among other things will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the colored...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks." Lincoln to Michael Hahn, Mar. 13, 1864. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basier (New... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 pages
...voter qualifications, said Jncoln, "I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some jf the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very inelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help,... | |
 | Eric Foner - 2010 - 322 pages
...constitutional convention: "I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people not be let in — as for instance, the very intelligent,...especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. . . . But this is only a suggestion, not to the public, but to you alone." Hardly a ringing endorsement... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 pages
...Convention which, among other things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored...the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. The new constitution made no provision for Negro suffrage. The President's recommendation had been... | |
 | John Hope Franklin - 1994 - 279 pages
...discussing the franchise in Louisiana, the President took the liberty to "barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in, as, for instance, the 21 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. WIIKKKAS, the President of the... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pages
...the first-free-state Governor of Louisiana," he asked "whether some of the colored people . . . — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks" should be permitted to vote. That would help "to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom."... | |
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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,... 
