 | Henry Watson Wilbur - 1914 - 232 páginas
...complete success. The colored man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance and with energy and daring to the same end. Grant that he desires the elective franchise. He will yet attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it than by running back over... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 242 páginas
...While he wished it had provided limited Negro suffrage, he believed this could be accomplished faster "by saving the already advanced steps toward it, than by running backward over them." In sum, the Louisiana government was a foundation to build on for the future — for blacks as well... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - 1998 - 772 páginas
...fight for it, and feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete success. The colored man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance...attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it than by running backward over them? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2002 - 804 páginas
...fight for it, and feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete success. The colored man too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance,...saving the already advanced steps toward it, than bv running backward over them? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 páginas
...colored man ... in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance, and energy, and daring . . . Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will...steps toward it, than by running backward over them?" Yes, and entirely too soon, in the estimate of one of the crowd who gathered that night at the White... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 páginas
...how.' " By accepting the progress Louisiana has already made, Lincoln reasoned, "the colored man ... in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance, and energy, and daring . . . Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 páginas
...fight for it, and feed it, and grow it and ripen it to a complete success. The colored man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance,...them? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...recognize and sustain the new government of Louisiana, the converse of all this is made true. We encourags the hearts and nerve the arms of the twelve thousand...attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them ? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 páginas
...fight for it, and feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete success. The colored man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance,...steps toward it, than by running backward over them?" Could this message be in any way misread? He was urging all blacks to show vigilance and energy and... | |
 | Bettye Stroud, Virginia Schomp - 2007 - 88 páginas
...urged congressional leaders to reconsider, arguing that black men would gain the vote more quickly "by saving the already advanced steps toward it, than by running backward over them. . . . The new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl; we shall... | |
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We encourage the hearts and nerve the arms of the twelve thousand to adhere to their work, and argue for it, and proselyte for it, and fight for it, and feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete success. The colored man, too, in seeing all united... 
