Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996
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HUGH
LENNOX
BOND
Judge Bond was an organizer of the Republican party in Maryland, along with Henry Winter Davis, John A.J. Creswell, and C.C. Fulton. |
| JUDGE HUGH LENNOX BOND was an organizer of the republican party in Maryland. He also ran for governor against Democratic governor Oden Bowie in 1868. Bowie won by a three-to-one margin. In 1868, he was also part of a small faction of the Republican party which opposed exclusion of blacks. Others, like John Creswell, felt the inclusion of blacks would serve no immediate purpose and might hurt their chances in the next presidential election; this was the view adopted by the party. He spoke during the ratification celebration in Baltimore. His remarks are recorded in the Sun and the American. Source: Summarized from The Negro in Maryland Poltics: 1870-1912. |
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