Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996
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HENRY
WINTER
DAVIS
Henry Winter Davis was an organizer of the Republican party in Maryland, along with Hugh Lennox Bond, John A.J. Creswell, and C.C. Fulton. |
| HENRY WINTER DAVIS was an organizer of the Republican party in Maryland. As his colleague Postmaster General Creswell said, (as printed in the American), "Among the first to grapple with the question of reconstruction was Henry Winter Davis, who with his remarkable prescience fully appreciated its transcendent importance long before the rebellion had been overthrown." He was a five term Congressman. Before he became a Republican, he had been a Know-Nothing and a Unionist -- a party which in Maryland became the Republican Party. He died in 1865, but was mentioned repeatedly as a key figure in the rhetoric of the celebration. He had always been acutely concerned with the physical and moral integrity of the Union, both in its preservation and reconstruction.Source: Summarized from The Life of Henry Winter Davis. |
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