modbm_us_102_8_065

To the honorable the General Assembly of Maryland : 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.