The daily union., 1854-10-28


You consider the furnishing OF Lews-Captain Corn
wavles managerfor attempting TO prevent the captains
Protestant from reading Parson Smiths sermons
and stiqmazng such books the works of the devil &C.
very generous aet-being at early period, and when
in ali probability, the Pspists had majority in the assem-
hlv where the case was decided But according the
of the Judgment itself he fined for his misde
meanor not from any consideration of religious rights but
simply because he the said Lewis had exceeded in for
bidding them read book otherwise aRo,eed and tdef
10 be read by The Ss Of England 1t was therefore,
mere administration Of The hso Of Me land not an act OF
generosity individual sect: so, Also when M
Gerard-lord Of St Clements Manor-was fined and com
peed to restore the books and key of the Protestant
chapel which he had carried away by arbitrary power
These eases satisfied Bozan that the Protesans very
strong in assembly at that early period eNered
a powerful influence over the Papists
will advert TO one other circumstance which you think
manifested great kindness and magnanniy the part OF
the Papists towards the Proes,an The next year after
the passage of the famous act SIR Roman Catholic mem
bers of lower house of assembly permitted sg Prot
esant members of the house (he whole body con-
sisne of fourteen menbers TO elect Protestant speaker
and the Puritan settlement How very gen
eous To doubt that spoke of this ironically would
fear with good reason make appear in your own es
tination consummstey dull of apprehension say no
more about it.
Has il never occurred you, my dear sir, very
strange thngif really you believe that Roman Catho-
lies were the authors liberation in Maryandat they
have never been the authors of such thing before since
in any other part OF the world2 Is not this enough to
convince you that in The Maryans case there must have
been constraning and controlling circumstances whch
caused it, and which, consequently depryes aRy
this concc and therefore endeayor to separate the act
from the motive II in vain That the merit or de-
merit Of act must be aetetl9insd by tue oce IS an
axiom in moral philosophy which Proeegs OF reasoning
can change IT, indeed behold yrtuois act Nnd are
ignoEant of the character of its author il Is but ia'r 70
presume pure motive for it "and, TO borrow your own
words do not aessa when figs to inquire whether
they may be possibly, 10y some monsrosy OF nature
the growth of the thorn But were really to see gena,n
fqs On thorn nevertheless would not consider myself
bound to believe them the product of that tree but would
more nationally conclude it device to deceive the
creduous excite the wonder of the transient observer
So were to act of religious liberation emanatng
from Roman Catholics | should necessarily conclude 1t
the result of coGsirainng circumstances which dSes
ed Il alike of genuineness and Of merit have shown
however that The Roman Catholics of Maryland never per-
formed any, the most tring act OF this KIND Ana when
forced back upon the derv resort that Lord Baltimore
being Roman Catholic and the Protestant governor and
council forming the upper house OF assembly being OF his
appointment without whose aid the law OF 649 could not
been consummated and that therefore, said act was
Roman Catholic act 1t ceases TO ava you wheh II IS rec
objected .et there paramount Protestant influence
which moved guided Lord Baltimore himself I'd all hat
he did in Maryland
of redress for attractions of its provisions by s opre
tary Petition to iie soyereigndeenied an inaenabe
right of the British subject aad aeraned by the British
cOnstitutionwas always available And tie DroWn was
always glad to have any pretext for issuing the VIII Of
ouo tca,ranto which was always unmisakabie pre-
cursor 2f the end Of chartered righs
And this reiinqs re of the fact that James the Second
did issue the writ Of 4o wa,ya,1 gganst Lord Bamores
patent being instigated thereto by certain Jesuit called
Faier sters as chastsemen for what they considered
lenity ad favor extended to Protesans by the pfoprie
tary This shows very clearly that they did not look upon
such acts as emanatons of Roman Catholicism and who
knew what was genuine Roman Catholicism better than
James the Second and Father Peters, But had they pos
sessed the least particle of generosity magnanmity
they would in view of the trying circumstances that sur
rcpnded the proprietary have readily excused him for his
apparent ceatenpt for the authority of his church.
And now TO tonc,uae. have touched believe, upon
al of the most important points of which you treat
have ms;ptaned that Lord Bsltim6res object IN planting
a colony in Maryland WIS not their free and Unpublished
exercise of the Roman Catholic religion. Had this been
the there would have remained evidence of IT.
Besides 1t s reasonable to suppose had such been MS o
ject he would have obtained grant from the King OF
Epain of province in South America Mexico rather
than seek ~ asylum in the midst Of Protestant colonies
already norishng and urder charter the terms of which
allowed them no protection, spcai -yileges or immu
mites bpt absolutely placed ten in subordinate seftons
to the established cGurc Of England Moreover hsI have
limited above Father White inlag terrible storm the
voyage declared he says himself in his AafrRtye, in
prayer which he offered up to Jesus Christ and bis
mother and ST Nicholas, and all the guardian angels of
haryana shat the purpose Of MS poyege ras 70 pay honor
the biobd Of edeemer By the conversion Of barbaran
And should not suspect sther WhiteJesuit though
he wasof any design under src circumstances to de-
ceve Christ and the SAINTS '' g"
have shown that Proesant and Roman Catholics,
tie inst settlers of Maryland that when Lord Bait
mores expedition arrived at ST Marys the Protestants in
the provnceincluding the Inhabitants of Kent Island
who had been living there several out
spmbered the Roman Catholics that, during the first four
years after the settlement made at 81. Mary
no laws were enacted for Maryland in consequence of the
dispute between The eenep and the proprietary respect
ing the right to originate bills that during this period
the Roman Catholic freemen controlling the assembly, in
consequence OF the inhabitants of the isle OF not yet
being therein represented they eneavored to establish the
Church of Rome in the colony with nil her rights immu
mites &c, &c that in 1857 royal ordinance forbade all
pcrcops not members of the established Church of England
leave the kingdom; that Father White speaks Of the
rival in Marylana protesants (hey must have been
members of the Church Of huglandl in 1851 1898 and
1885, but not of any Papiss; that in England daring this
period and for few years after there existed Committee
of ne nt its
head having authority all ecclesiastical affairs of the
colonies, maryland not erceed that in 1912 law passed
Virginia to sxpel the Purans in consequence of which
Bozman and McSherry think considerable number
oge2 to Maryland which, of course added TO the Protest
ant strengt4s Qiready superior to that of the Phpiss
that Purans and other Protestant non-conformss had
equal right with Roman Catholics to remove and .
dwell in the proyncethe terms of the charter gsaEg Pa
pists advantage Puritans and the ninth article
of that instrument authorizing all subjects the Crown
without distinction, to and dwell beein that
the charter comforting Papists authority than
Rrtenc, the latter had good right to exclude Pa
pists pass Oppressive laws against them the Papss
had to act TINS towards the Pprans that had the Papts
passed laws OF intolerance they we're physically able
enforce them the Proestans having been powerful
for them from the beginning; but any such laws would
have been violation of the charter and have brought
down upon Lord Baltimore the vengeance of the govern
nent in the mother country that in l643-he authority
OF .e King being already upersededhe Parliament APP
pointed board of commissioners visit the colonies,
with to reorgan1s their governments if they should
deem 1t necessary that in G44 thers vas insurrccon
in Maryand-he government was changed--tne Roman
Catholic priests expelled, and Lord Banorcs au-
hority not reestabished till 1916 that during these
two years they driving the Purans of Virginia and
all probability il etugitives who formed the