Enfranchisement Quotes
The reasons for this are a puzzle for which there are a number of theoretical explanation ranging from the basic fairness of the Fins—they protected all their Jews even though they were weak allies of Nazi Germany—to the fact that 1906 was the aftermath of a major war in the area and the female franchise was only one part of an overall reorganization of society. Whatever the reasons, women got the vote in Finland before England, America, France or any of the other more “modern” and “sophisticated” nations.
He was referring to Negroes who did not then have the fight to vote.
At the time, Sir Charles was the commander of British Military forces of the North of England and rode to Kersal Moor to keep his eye on a huge Chartist demonstration. See {616055}. He reached this conclusion.
The demonstration actually had 300,000 people including 20 different bands, humongous for the day.
Armstrong was a Union military chaplain with the troops that had captured Petersburg, Virginia. Of particular interest in this quotation is his report on the attitude of the poor whites after the war had destroyed the economy of the area and reduced the former wealthy aristocrats to poverty.
Grady, representing what he called the New South pole kindly of Blacks in the North (See Quotation 643652), but gave his highly racist views to his Southern brethren—see Quotation 643649. He overtly in the North advocated liberty and the right to vote for Blacks (more than most Southerners at the time, but wanted the Federal role limited so that the enforcement of Black liberty and the voting franchise to be left to the States. And that is what occurred for the next half century. However, the state governments not only did not provide liberty and the voting franchise, the Southern States passed legislation and opted policies allowing KKK and other terror and intimidation so that Blacks would not exercise their rights to vote and be free. It is had to tell whether he was naive enough to believe that the Souther States would do what he claimed in the North or whether he not only realized what was likely to happen with the states in charge, but presented a moderate picture deliberately to keep the Federal government from interfering with the prerogative of the states to discriminate against Blacks. His racist views in his Southern speeches (for example, see quotation 643649) lead many to believe the latter view.
