curprev05:3205:32, 23 May 2023 Indy beetletalkcontribs 3,985 bytes−227 This does not say that Ashe opposed the constitution because of black enfranchisement. It says of him "Mr. Ashe made the [gubernatorial] campaign through the State, presenting the views of the conservative people whose interest in peace, prosperity, and happiness was of so much greater value to civilization than that of the emancipated negroes." That's the source editorializing on the Conservatives position being "greater", it is not an actual comment on Ashe's views on blacks or the constitutnundoTag: Undo
curprev03:4703:47, 23 May 2023 Indy beetletalkcontribs 3,776 bytes−161 Undid revision 1156485761 by Secarctangent (talk) "slave owner" is not what makes him notable, and as this is taken from a comprehensive database of slaveholding congressmen, there's no context to show how this was at all singificant in his life for it to be worth even a mention in the ledeundoTags: UndoReverted