 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...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 Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...to some that the elective franchise is not given to the coloured men. 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.... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...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.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...unsatisfactory, that the elective franchise is not given to the colored men. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 770 pages
...unsatisfactory, that the elective franchise is not given to the colored men. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 774 pages
...unsatisfactory, that the elective franchise is not given to the colored men. 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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 594 pages
...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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored men. 1 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.... | |
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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. 
