Illustrated life, services, martyrdom, and funeral of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States : with a portrait of President Lincoln, and other illustrative engravings of the scene of the assassination, etc . er assistance, they never having been out of amount of constituencjr, so to speak, on which the Louisi-ana (iovermnent rests, would be more satisfactory to all if itcontained 50,000. or 30,000, or even 20,000, instead of 12,000, asit does. It is also unsatisfactory to some that the electivefranchise is not given to the colored man. I would myselfprefer that it wer
Illustrated life, services, martyrdom, and funeral of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States : with a portrait of President Lincoln, and other illustrative engravings of the scene of the assassination, etc . er assistance, they never having been out of amount of constituencjr, so to speak, on which the Louisi-ana (iovermnent rests, would be more satisfactory to all if itcontained 50,000. or 30,000, or even 20,000, instead of 12,000, asit does. It is also unsatisfactory to some that the electivefranchise is not given to the colored man. I would myselfprefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, andon those who serve our cause as soldiers. Still the question isnot whether the Louisiana government, as it stands, is quite allthat is desirable. The question is, will it be wiser to take it asit is, and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse ? CanLouisiana be brought into proper practical relation with theUnion sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new Stategovernmeut? Some twelve thousand voters in tlie heretoforeslave State of Louisiana have sworn allegiance to the Union,assumed to be the rightful political power of the State, held -=—5-*-^ss=:<%:% ^^ ^ ^^^. ^%i\ i I. .&- LIFE AND SERVICES OF ABKAHAM LINCOLN. 197 elections, organized a State government, adopted a Free Stateconstitution, giving the benefit of public schools equally toblack and white, and empowering the legislature to confer theelective franchise upon the colored man. This Legislature hasalready voted to ratify the constitutional amendment recentlypassed by Congress, abolishing slavery throughout the twelve thousand persons are thus fully committed to theUnion and to perpetuate freedom in the State; committed tothe very things, and nearly all things, the nation wants, andthey ask the nations recognition and its assistance to makegood this committal. Now if we reject and spurn them, we doour utmost to disorganize and disperse them. We in f
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