The book proposal

[Eva Elisabeth]

What were Lincoln's views on women voting?

While running for re-election to the Illinois general assembly, Lincoln wrote the following in a letter to the editor of the "Sangamo Journal" on June13, 1836: “I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)”