The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-19

ON complaint being made this Captain Corn alisa Cato-
licsent the case to court Of which Governor Calvert
himself and Tie secretary OF the province members
where ii tried and Lewis the Catholic by Catholic
Judges the complaint OF Protesants inferior in position
TO himself whom he was the osefseer was fined i've
hundred pounds of tobacco, and committed prison till
he should give security for his good behavior for the u
ture
If Notwithstanding these proofs of Catholic liberation
you persist saying that it is impossible that the act
l649 could proceed from Roman Catholics because
contrary the poliy OF their church must reply sir
that the fact of liberation in this State is ndispubei
and that it quite contrary to the polity of your
church (e Presbytran) in those days and TO mine the
Episcopalian) as TO theirs.
Indeed according the faith OF my church. as preached
by some OF its hottest and learned men, similar in
tolerance belongs to it, OF your church say nothing
0fmy ! may speak with freedom. | know not by
what courteous phrase you damn Catholics but do know
that we some fshose who claim know beyond doubt
the councils of the Most Highn my church. turn You the
members of your church. over in language polite TO the
auncoreaaned bercies Of God y which means when rem
aercd in plain English that the best of their
and belief they very sorry say but truth requires
it, the whole Of you-al who Proestans-lJ4t our
seires--will be damned
In truth sir Ceceius Calvert good aud wise man.
well adapted by the welproportoned frmness and mild
of his nature stamp the impress of his own charac-
ter upon his colonial offspring Selecting the choicest
weapon from the armory of the Bible he overcame evil with
good He lcgislaed father for his Maynard children
while he displayed the rmness Indispensable in ruler
he mingled with it the mldness of the paternal heart
1t is said-I believe trulythat Indian tomahawk was
never red with Quaker blood. Acting principle akin
theirs queed the turbulence of natcis in all the de-
nominations that gathered in his dominons and so equally
did he do justice among his Subjects that in reading his
laws it is impossible to discover whether he liberal
Catholic liberal Protestantso identical the in
all but their names.
III. As to the second proposition:
That if the act Of 649 passed by legislature
in which the Roman Catholics were in the minority, which
represented population the minority of which was Ro-
Catholics it does not prove that religious liberation
did not proceed from them.
From the conceded facts it appears that the first found
ers Of the colony and the lord proprietary were Roman
Catholics and that in them the power hc dis
ribute exclusively resided of making all laws that did
not infringe the laws Of the kingdom of England
At point of time them the absolute power resided in
Roman Catholics of excluding, by force of disabling laws
all Protesants dissenting from the Episcopal church
Further without passing any law the subject they
could have excluded not only dissenting Protesnnt but
Episcopaians BY refusing to sell them land You know
the lord proprietary acquired his title from being the alb
soute of all the soil of Maryland You know that
every acre of land emanaed by grants from him How
hold in this province All rotestants could have been
excluded from the province by the refusal to sell them
land-all Protestans except Epscopaans, could have
been excluded by legislation yet they excluded
but welcomed and welcomed so warmly that you, and
those who argue your side of this question: saybut
not trulythat in l6lo (ony fifteen years after The found
ing of the colony the Protestant representatives of the
people were in the majority in the lower house.
have said all Protestans except Episcopalians might
have been excluded by statute. The laws of England
against dissenting Proestans less stringent than
against Roman Catholics. Why, then, not a law
passed in the province against these dissenting Protest
ants The charter conferred the power to pass all laws not
inconsistent with those Of the mother country Yet none
such passed. and the law of lG49 guards Prcsbye-
rans Roundheads Baptsts Quakers and all others be-
eving in the Divinity Of Christ eectualy does
Catholics and Episcnpaians and this law in strict
conformity with the anecedent practice in the province
Whence then, this liberation toward all Professionals
Did it spring from Difference TO Charles the Firsto
conformity with his supposed wishes Surely The toe
ration ofEpscopaaps may be ascribed that motive but
not the liberation of other Professionals To ascrbe such
views him regard the general liberation pracsed in
the province emanaton direct indirect from the
mind and heart ofChares First is to forget the history of all
his trials his contests his wars and his DEATH AS Epsco
paan he might under the influence of his charming Queen
Henrietta CathOc-under the influence of the court of
France and Spain which sympathized deeply with him in
his contests with his Protestant subjectsnnder the inu
ence of hts court many Of whose members
stongy inlbued with the Catholic fh--that under al
of these influences he might have regarded with
placency Law which should give protection both TO Cath
Ollie and Epcopaan quite credble but that he should
have bes1 Milling have extended the forbearance
to every other denomination is beyond the power of be-
lief with Gil those acquainted With bis sentiments and his
tory.
But by others it is said that the dssenters ,r!-
umphant in England about this time, and therefore the
of the parliamentary forces cocrced the passage of
this law, far as it gave protection to them
1t rust BE borne in mind that this very law sent
from England already drawn up by Lord Baltimore
II must have left there in the fail ynter Of l64s
enacted in the spring of 64a and IN protecting Ipiscopa
ans and Catholics have been obnoxious Presbyte
rians and Ronndheads. But proof conclusive that
base terror the constituent of this law but manly
honest, Christian forbearance it must be remembered
has been already stated that notwithstanding il
ed that those who should sal! Charles the Second king
should be guilty of high treason In November 649 he
was publicly proclaimed in Maryland the lawful king of
Ergland and to further the public rejocings general
pardon for all past offences was proclaimed.
But again: how &c Protestant influence carried this law,
can YOU account for the Pr0tcstat passing such law in
no other of the colonies
The Episcopaans drove the disseners from Virginia,
and they found retnge here The Puritans Of the North
prosecuted the Quakers ana the Epscopaans, and they
found refuge here IT is strange that tie Procstants alb
stained from persecution in Maryland alone and pracsed
it every where else aa still more strange thai this par
tiealsr time when the spirit OF liberation is claimed for
them and denied to have existed i is the only time IN The
history of the province that they did practise j. when they
had the power in their hands 10 l,e,sacpte,
select the following from many laws passed in the
province when the Protesants were in power
In 7o4 an act entitled An ac. prevent the growth
of Popery within this province pnssod
In 1907 another act was passed suspendng OF lis
provisions und her Majesty pleasure sgnifed therein
And In lTlS tie Of Ire Parliament of Great Brhin
passed in the eleventh; anq twelfth yeers of William III
entitled an act for the further preventing growth of
Poperyn was droiaea by act OF geneit assembly Of the
province be in force Ia I'LL s provisions in The priv
incc.
That act conrasted with the law of l6l9, reveals the
difference between the charity of the Proesans of the hat
ter period and the Romaniss of Cccelius Calerts day
Twill gy eynppsis OF its provisions:
Sec. LIST provides reWntd Of tl00 to any who
shall "opprehena a,sd take fopish bishop priest
Jesuit ad prosecute him until convicte OF saying nass
Of exercising any other part OF the Office uncob Of
Popish bishop or priest
bishop priest Jesuit that shall say exercise any
function pconer such bishop priest Jesuit
person protesting ihe Catholic religion who shall keep
school, or educate or govern, % board any youth.
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