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To: WhiskeyPapa

[Walt] even empowered the legislature to enfranchise Negroes if it wanted to.

What do you think, Walt? Did the legislature of Louisiana want to???

What odds would Las Vegas have given on that one?

1,026 posted on 10/12/2003 5:29:05 AM PDT by nolu chan

To: nolu chan

[Walt] even empowered the legislature to enfranchise Negroes if it wanted to.
What do you think, Walt? Did the legislature of Louisiana want to???

What odds would Las Vegas have given on that one?

Few people in 1865 were seriously considering voting rights for blacks.

President Lincoln was in that group.

Walt

1,029 posted on 10/12/2003 5:40:36 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Virtue is the uncontested prize.)

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