The daily union., 1854-10-28
ROMAN CATHOLICS NOT THE AUTHORS OF RE-
IIGIoUs TOLERATION IN AMERICA OR IN MARY

last and which appeared in the Union Of nth of the
month; but being too long for newspaper %
nication have request that you VIII receive ING
ing Jre in lieu thereof till such time as may ma IL con-
venent publish the reply in full, in pamphlet iorp
In the heading OF your letter. you ASSUME .a IN sms
Catholics were the authors of religious oleraton Ia Amer
ica But YOU assume besides distinct propositions
and sum them all up this FORM as the question TO be ar
pued viz Vas toeration IN hts STATE Aarydnd) @ no
am obliged 10 in the most concise manner posi-
BILE what have said in my reply and think can do this
better bv taking up your positions consecuvely must
necessarily labor great disadvantage to the cause Tor the
want of space for quotations and argument
1st position. Roman Cdthohcs WTe tyou say "e J""
settlers Of Maryland
Anstser The first Roman Catholics settled in Maryland
in March, 1884 but Kent Island in Maryland was settled
entirely by Protesants several years before TINS anu se
delegates the house OF burgesses In virginia nere was
also Protestant settlement Palmers Island at the heau
of the Bay
I'd position The naotipe the settlement Of Maryland by
he Roman Catholics aoas me enjoyment @ INC '"' e0'
science.
Reol, Neither YOU nor any of the numerous writers
who have asserted the thing have adduced any e
dence whatever in its support Lord baltimore never
claimed it nor any Of his first colonss On the other
hand different motive is distinctly declared by the char
ter and also by Father Andrew White of the Jesuit
priests that accompanied the expedition he says ex
pressy il was missionary enterprise. There is no evi-
dence that those rights ever violated IN England
and does not Archbishop Hughes say they cannot be
reached by the hand of man?
Sd poson They pousy inped others 10 rear Their dfears
and aeorship their Creator according TO their conscience
Ansrer You refer no act-no instance OF such
thing and no history of Maryland cites such an invita-
lion is therefore denied On the contrary among their
frst acts was one to disranche all persons but Chris
tians--according their defntion g course-Which
would put you and me and all other Protesans without
the pale Another was regulate the glebe and nnoh-
err to eaJisA the Church Of Rome in Maryland, with all
her rights privileges and immunities safe whole and IN
yolable in all things See Bozmans Marysna sGi
and what cruel practices have ever followed shch an eso
lishment. Twice they tried this but Lord Baltimore re
knew better than to sanction it, The commissioners OF
,antatons with the Archbishop Of Canterbury at their
head claimed jurisdiction of all ecclesiastical AFFAIRS IN he
colonies and the charter expressly secured the rights o.
the Church of England and threw the shield OF EngandS
laws over the members Of iat church in the colony NO
rgous rights or liberties extended by the charter TO
Roman Catholics or any other con-snFm,s,s iney anu
preston but by the silence only of the charter ~ non
couformsts who might settle in the province were Athe
thus the subjects of its negative liberation
4 position oman Catholics those acho hrst on ms
continent proclaimed and prdcsed religious toey0son
In support of this Won refer the act of 649
ing religion and the fact that liberation had previously
thereto existed in the colony contendng that the Koman
Catholics Of the colony and Lord Baltimore were the au
thorS of both . .
In my reply have eontented myself with showing
that your assumption is simply erroneous bd Eaye shown
think conclusivey that your reasoning is lacious AS
to the fact the act Rhode Island which passed into
law in May Ie4T years before the passage of the Mary
land law rees all other claims to priority OF acts
of tolerance Nor the Maryland act be called one OF
toleyati6n comparison with that OF Rhode Island The
who profess belief in Jesus Christ sTing such as are
excepted in the preceding sections and these exceptions re-
fer 10 certain classes of persons which embrace Coos
chosen people the Jews, well Mahomedans, pagais
atheists deists basphemers, Socinan Arians Unarlans
&C. &C. nil persons holding with such sects it declares
sh be put death without mercy for their unbelief &c
am IL their land and goods forfeited the lord proprie
tary But how nobly and goriousy does that brief and
simple but acomprehensive law OF Rhode Island stand
I'D the side of this bloody and Maryland
law will not resist the impulse tIalscribe here the
Rhode Island law as | find II in Knowles Memoir of
All men may aoaM their conscences persuade Them,
erery The Of his God And let The Aa,abs Of tie
Most Hgh pak in this colony whom moteaion in te name
of yehocah their God forever and eca."
This law excludes religon-the assertion OF Chal-
mers such have copied him, that excluded Romdn
Catholics 10 the contrary Notwithstanding The assertion
is unfounded calumny You have quoted Judge Story
and Mr. Bancroft to sustain your position that the great
truthdaesery has The right to porshp God according
10 lie dcates his hrst practised
the banks of the little stream of St Mary and first
ciaed in legislative language in the act OF l649 Not be-
ing able suppose those distinguished could have
intended 10 faVy public records and history have con
tended in my reply that you have not fairly and properly
construed their languages and as TO the practice of such
worship show in the same reply that was prae'ed full
the settlement made the banks OF the st NaIys
and have shown eoncnsivey that such worship could
not have been practised by Roman Caol'cs Do you not
know my SIR that Roman Catholic cannot worship
God acc6rdng the dictates Of bis conscience achom
ncrng the yih Of heresy prove this from their own
laws and standard authors.
AS to the authorship of the Maryland law Lord Balti-
more prepared it and sent the general assembly of
Maryland for enactment But show that the political
condition of things in England suggested the idea as
means of concatng the favor of the Presbyeaps and IN
dependents who then predominant and thereby Of
saving his colonial rights which at that very time were
seriously Threatened with destruction also that he Dor
roacea-copied perhaps should sayhe principles chief
features of his bithe intoerant aud bloody part from
recent ordinance of the Parliament against hasphemy and
heresy and the part favorng tolerance from paper said
TO have been drawn up by General lreon elted "Ihe
Agreement of the People and published by the Off
GERS Of the army as basis OF form OF government
(See those papers Meals Hist of the Purans pp 10 S0
About the same time fit in l648) Lord Baltimore
conceived the idea of chan&g his government in Mary
land from Roman Catholic Proiesant concluding, it is
reasonable to suppose that this measure would go Tar to-
wards sustaining his interests BoLman ana NcShery both
consider this the motive Accordingly he dismissed his
Roman Catholic officers and appointed Protestant gov
erno Protestant secretary and four Protestant members
of the council of five On this GccaSlon you recQecl
he prescribed new oaths for those Protestant officers TOR the
special protection Of The Roman Catholics They swore they
would notify themselves any other-noest &cp any
person protesting to believe in Jesus Christ &c, and IN
aytieutn no Roman Cahoic The act concerning re-
qonn was passed the first session of the assembly u-
the and Protestant government The two houses
AZ tins period sat in the and voted together
The upper house consisted OF the and the five
members of the council You admit that this occasion
the lower house composed of five Protestant Bemers
exclusive of Mr.. Vaughan the representative Eon hent
island who being also member OF the council was coz
sequcntly member of the upper house, and six Roman
Catholics If Mr. Vaughan voted in that houseand there
is no doubt that he didthen the Protestans and Papss
exactly equal in the lower house giving prePonu
the Potesants OF all the members bu one OF the
upper house 1t is this OF the that satisfied Boz
man it was Protestant law. For my own part Hink