Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-11-03

source, and that it is our correspondent who IS
mistaken in the history of this one OF the cold
thirteen'' instead of us. Willie saY>in answer
to the fact that the provision OF the Charter OF
Maryland guaranteeing freedom of conscience,
placed there by Lord Baltimore HIMSELF was done
bv the latter because he knew that If it was not
i'm it. it would fail to recsiye the royal sanction
and thathe therefore made virtue OF necesSarYI
This could be triumphantly refuted, however, by
pointing to the example of Massachusetts,, the Pu-
ritan founders of which obtained Charter, dis
senteIs from the established church OF England,
though they were, which contained no provision
in regard to religious liberty, about the same
time from the same monarch, Charles the First
although he disliked them much more than
the denomination Of which Lord Baltimore was
member, and there can be little doubt that favor
ate ofthe King as the latter was he could have
got Charter thatwaS silent about religion, leav-
ing the Catholic emigrantS to make such statues
upon the subject as pleased them, had he been
disposed, and that the wise federation of all be-
liefs W hich that instrument contained was due to
him and not to the King.
BANCROFT speaks positively on this point in the
following extract from his history, which our cor
respondent can find en- page 24S, in the first
volume of the United States. He gives all the
credit to Baltimore alone. "Every other country in
the world had prosecuting laws. Il will not
such was the oath of the Governor OF Maryland
Il will not by myself, or any other, directly or
indirectly, modest persons protesting religion in
Jesus ChriStfcr, or in respect OF religion Under
the mild institutions and munifcence ofBaltimore,
the dreary wilderness soon bloomed with the
swarminglife and activity of prosperous settle
ments; the roman Catholics, who WERE oppressed
by the laws of England, were sure to find
peaceful asylum III the quiet harbors of the
Chesapeake, and there, too, PrOtestGnts t0ere
| sheltered against Protestant intolerance" Such
is bnef and impartial account of the early in
situations and auspices under which the Catholic
colony of Maryland commenced its existence, and
it deserves 10 be remembered to the credit OF the
Church in this country, when the spirit OF
persecution and intolerance is invoked against it.
Had all of its career as we'll as that fthe ie ent
Protestant sects, been marked by the same wisdom,
mildness and forbearance, great deal would
have been struck out of the history of the world
that can now only be read with pain and regret
by every candid and liberal minded person who
respects religion and the benifcent influences
which it has ever shed upon mankind.
DEPARTURE OF MIssIoNARIEs.-The Rev. Ntessrs.
Tracy, Little and Scott, with theirwiyes, embark
ed at Boston on Thursday morning, in the Piscata-
qua, Capt. Wendell, for Madras. Messrs. Tracy
and Little are members ofthe Madura mission, un-
der the care of the American Board, and now re-
turn to field in which they have already spent
some years. Mr.. and Mrs. Scott will proceed
from Madras to Calcutta, and thence to Agra,
where they are expecting to labor under the direc-
ton Of the Presbyterian Board of Missions