To the honorable the General Assembly of Maryland
Subtitle: the memorial of the undersigned respectfully states ... he would earnestly suggest the adoption of the substance of the propositions embraced in the following preamble ... these facts, viewed in connection with the so-called Reconstruction Acts and the 15th Amendment of the Constitution, render them immoral, and therefore illegal; so far as they propose to give suffrage to a colored race
By: Philip C. Friese
Series: Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1870
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Suffrage; Maryland. General Assembly; United States
Notes: Caption title.

Dated February 26, A.D. 1870.

Pages 2 and 4 are blank.

Includes eight proposed resolutions, including rejection of the 15th Amendment, addressed to the General Assembly of Maryland, "That the common and deliberate opinion of the people of this State be, and is hereby submitted, with their friendly greeting, to the people of all the States ..." and that a copy of the resolutions "be transmitted, by the Governor of Maryland, to the Governors and to the Legislatures of the several States of the National Union."

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From the library of Charles Sumner.