 | Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 psl.
...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.... | |
 | Mississippi Historical Society - 1918 - 620 psl.
...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: Will it be wiser to take it as it is. and help to improve it, or to reject and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1920 - 362 psl.
...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 - 1921 - 292 psl.
...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 - 1927 - 474 psl.
...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.... | |
 | John W. Blassingame - 1976 - 88 psl.
...assassination, Lincoln spoke about suffrage and asserted, "I would myself prefer that it were now conferred upon the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." Douglass firmly believed that the black man could not long survive in some halfway house between freedom... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 psl.
...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.... | |
 | 1980 - 224 psl.
...condition" which Sumner wanted to impose upon Louisiana, Lincoln remarked, "1 would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." This public statement of personal preference was bolder than his letter of a year earlier to the Union... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1988 - 324 psl.
...elective franchise is not given to the colored man," he confessed that he himself would "prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers." But he went on to point out that under the new constitution the legislature was empowered to confer... | |
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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. 
