negro-franchise

Updated: June 23, 2025

"The President, in this connection, expressed the opinion that the agitation of the negro-franchise question in the District of Columbia, at this time was the mere entering-wedge to the agitation of the question throughout the States, and was ill-timed, uncalled for, and calculated to do great harm.

William Horatio Barnes - History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States