New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-10

In 1857 marriages were required TO be so,emrzed bs
fore minister's Of the Church of England there beng
that time only onS in Massachusetts, Fass and hanks
riyings suppressed, public meetings disallowed
ssd passports required in order to leave the prov
nce In 1872 instruction took place at Bovton An
dros and fifty others we're imprisoned and Bssdsrcet
ninety years old, made Governor.
In 1893 the people Of Nsw-ilsmpshre entertained the
design Of sbandoang the province their situation had
become irksome and dangerous" At this period the
people o. this "Grsaite' Colony described "a
nrrsery ,, stern he oism producing men OF frmness sd
yalor wi, can traverse mounsns and deserts encoun ~
Hhart}sbps and face az enemy, without terror
In 1898 II. belief in witchcrsft universal as
vas the belief m Christianity and every civilized State
had penal code, against t. Sir Mathew Hale eduiged
number of men and women to die sor wcherest, few
yerrs before this period The convstion of tie witches
of Tarbos in Eiizabehs r5 sn, was commemorated by
an annual sermon Huntingdon England rs late as the
mid Ne of tire Eighteenth Century; and the Scottish se-
cede denounced the repeal of the peral laws against
witchcra as a national sin, in l743 and reprinted their
protest late 1906 The last executions OF witches in
England were in l7l6 and 1884,
In 1884, three witches were hanged in Hartford Conn.,
But few instances however in America till 1888
when a woman was executed in Boston, and Richard Bax
ter wrote account thereof declaring that any one re-
fusing believe in witchera obduratc Saddueee
In 1892 the epilepsy allied in Massachusetts,, break
ing out in Salem and the physicians could neither
plain or the disease II ascrIbed to witchcrat.
Commencing at Salem it spread through New-Engand,
and for months of blood terror and madness pre-
vailed. Young women were the first and most
victims Twenty-eigh persons were captaly convicted
of whom nineteen had been hung and pressed to death
for refusing to plead One hundred and fifty persons
in prison on charges and hundred others presented
for Indictment AT this period of the deusion the wife Of
Gov Pbips the nearest relatives of DIR. Nather and
citizen of Boston were accused of witchcraft The
cusers arrested for defamation at the suit of the Bos
ton citizen and thousand pounds claimed as dam
aees The spell was broken, and at the next Assize fifty
prisoners were tried only three convicted and these
were Immediately p11Dned by the Governor.
In June l793 an assembly of Dvines ,olemny declared
That the apparons Of persons affecting others, was no
proof of their being witches and spectral evidence
was not regarded sufficient to convict by urss Buta
large portion of the people still believed that the recent
maady was caused in fact by witchcrat, and and DIR.
Mather wrote treatise in support OF the opinion.
Sir William Phips however, ordered all persons to be re-
leased who in custody charges OF witchcra and
pardoned all who had participated accuser Witnesses
in the late prosecutions The House of Assembly appointed
general fast and solemn duplication q" that God would
pardon all the errors of his and people in late
tragedy raised among by Satan and his instruments
Thus ended the witchcraf delusion.
In 1856 the first Episcopal Society formed in Massa
cLusctts and the first Episcopal Chapel erected in
1852 The first Quaker Meeting house built in Bos
ton in l7lO. Mass was first performed in Boston by
Roman Catholic Priest in l7ss and the Church built for
the French Protestants who fled from Catholic persecu
on was the same Church that received the Roman Cath
olics who fed from the Jacobins OF France.
Cotton Mather the of Increase Maher, wrote 3s2
works of all Sorts Above his studydoor inscribed,
Be short" Grahame, the historian says that, according
to Quincy the Mathers although strong-minded and
really pious were "sometmes corrupted by deep vein
of passionate vanity and absurdity."
In 1855 Cotton Maher said that the Rhode Island Colony
was "coluves 10 sink of Anmonians Famalists, Ana
"baptss An-sabbitarians, Armenians sociaians, Qua
kers Rsnters and everything but Roman Catholics and
true Christians-Jona terra, muia geas"-a good land
and wicked people. The town of Providence was inhab-
tied by the schismacs who followed Roger Williams and
Anne Hutchinson in exile and in 1865 there neither
magistrate minister in the town. All civil and eccle
siastca unctonaries who refused to for nothing
without pay called hirelings
MARYLAND was the first Of the American States in which
religious federation established by law Lord Baltimore
proclaimed that religious liberation should be the funda
mental principle of the Colonial social union and the As
semby in 1919, mostly Roman Catholics, declared and Or
daned that person protesting to believe in Jesus Christ
free exercise of his mode of worship. Atth tmethe
Pans were prosecuting their Protestant brethren New
England the Epscopalans of Virginia prosecuting the
Purtans; while Catholic Maryland WAS sanctuary forth
refugees Of all denominations OF Christians the place where
Proestans sought refuge from Professionals And after
ward these reugees sought the abrogation OF
The Catholic worship and religious federation in Maryland,
and effected it by legal enactment in 1851
In 1906 Maryland passed the first law in the Provinces
for the naturalization of Aliens
1t was statute of Elizabeth the First naicting Danish
ment dangerous rogues 1t was james the First who
introduced the practice of transporting felons TO Virginia
Chief Justice Popham being American proprietor sug-
gested it, and designed w-England the best place.
After the Restoration many Quakers transported to
Americ, as feons. Maryland protested against it, but
only short time prior to the American Revolution $50
felons were annually imported into that State.
Shaksperc only mentions America once, in his works
in the Tempest where Ariel celebrates the stormy coast OF
the still vexed Bermudas' And Milton does not men,
ton America q. ALL but he casually aludes to the Indians
as seen by Columbus, in Paradise Lost, Book TX
Juan Ponce dc Leon, the Spanish Governor OF Porto
Rico companion of Columbus, first discovered that re-
gion of country part of which is now called Florida
lie arrived on the in April 1872 when the country
was in the fresh bloom of sprngthe trees were covered
with blossoms and the ground with flowers From the
vorna beauty that adorned the surface and because he
discovered the land on the Sunday before Easer~hich
the spaniards called Paseua de Fores-he gave II the
meme Of Florida Juan Ponce was in quest OF the and
reported by the natives of the Cabee lsand& 10 contain
brook or fountain endowed with the miracu power OF
restoring the bloom and vgor of youth to 1ge and de-
crepitude He chilled his aged frame by ba hing in every
stream and fountain he could find, was banded by ar
Indians arrow, and died in Cuba.
To discourage immigration to Americ a Sir WAIrEF
Sco1r wrote the following:
ExfLEs
thought how sad would be the nnS
q ehannaRs swampy md
E,,,ue svsw eredb