Tag Archives: Henry Winter Davis

Whose Maryland?

150 years ago this week Gotham’s Times thought it was pretty funny that a presumed states-rights Democrat would appeal to the federal Constitution to negate Maryland’s election law. From The New-York Times September 8, 1865: The Democracy and State Rights. … Continue reading

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border fanatic

Maryland might have been a border state, bordering on Virginia, as a matter of fact, but that didn’t mean one of its representatives in the Yankee Congress couldn’t be a Blacker Republican that President Lincoln. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading

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