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- GLC#
- GLC02713
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa 1866
- Author/Creator
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878
- Title
- to unknown [incomplete]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Welles, United States Secretary of the Navy, writes to an unknown recipient regarding the suffrage and governmental representation of freed enslaved people. States "But Slavery has been abolished ... not by the voluntary act of the States in which it existed, but by the events of the War, and it is now proposed by those who have overthrown 'the institution' in these states to deprive them their due ... representation according to population unless the blacks are enfranchised." Only page three of this document survives.
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