The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-20

Virginia, in coDtunctt0n with one SacnsEu
Ingle, freebooter and outlaw, having /.
raised band Of desperate men, eupceedeo i
in expelling the proprietary govosnment'
Governor Calvert took refuge In Virginia,
and the insurgents kept possession OF tn9
government for two years, Expressing anu
plundering the people without mercy. 10
wards the close of the year l646, Governor
Calvert returned to Maryland at the head OF :
q small but brave and determined band OF
followers, regained possession of tue gov
eminent, and soon restored peace ano pros
perity to the distracted province. But ne
l647, he issued a general pardon to all VINO
had been engaged in rebellion, and on the
9th of June of the same year he died, ~
the bloom of manhood, and when the young
colony most needed his courage, his actls'
ity and his useful talents. .,
The second Lord Baltimore was q liberal,
spirited nObleman, . warm-hearteo Anu
generous gentleman. He expended iorCy
Thousand pounds of his private fortune, dur
| ing the first two years of the colonization
and provisions to the new province ne
married Anna, daughter OF the carr o,
| Arundel, one of the most distingulsheo
Catholic peers of England. 49,. .:.,o
HE son Charles succeeded to tthe tltie
and estate. He had in 1862 been appointed
| by his father governor of Maryland, ana
4 resided many years in the province, ao-
ministeriug it's affairs with ability, wisdom
and justice during period OF great dan
ger and embarrassment; he endeareo III
self to the colonists by his many noble
qualities. He married, in Maryland, Jane
the widow of the Honorable Henry Se"aii,
one of the most prominent colonlsts, ana
, lived for several years at Mattapany- Sewali,
f near the mouth Of the Patuxent River. After
3 the death of his father he went to England,
f INIT returned to Maryland in 1851. During
' the next two or three years he held severai
conferences with William Penn, In order to
' settle the disputed boundary of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, but no satisfactory ar
: rangement was effected between them; nor
d was the controversy finally settled until
J., the year l76O, when Frederick Lord Baitl.
d more and Richard and John Penn signed
I terms of agreement.
= 1t was during the lifetime of Charles Cal
vert that the monstrous outrage against re-
d lieious liberty was committed which I'D
q eral- spirited clergyman of the Church OF
If England justly pronounced "a violation o,
q the unalterable principles of Justice" In q
ls colony founded by Catholic, planted oy
d Catholic and settled chiefly by Cathoiics-
! a colony where the broad and glorious doc
y trine of religious federation was first pro
=. claimed-a colony which welcomed within
d it's borders all who were prosecuted Tor con
o, science sake,-in this Catholic colony
e within the same century that Witnessed ies
Id was not allowed to Catholics, the Churci
of of England was established by law, and al
Of were taxed to support it; Catholics wer
ne deprived of the right to vote, and were no
lg allowed to hold offices of trust and pront
ID This Injustice continued to be practiced
with more or less severity, until the Amer
er lean Revolution, when the immortal prin
nd ciples of religious liberty were estaoilshe
mt throughout tho whole extent of this coun
ne try. p.,., d;.a !,
DIS the Goth of February, l714, at the good Oh
" age of eighty four years.
OF The present Maryland Calverts are DEF
nd cended from Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore
he and are an illegitimate branch OF the tamii!
I'd, The descendants of Benedict Calvert, tn
nd natural son Of Charles, are quite npmer0l
ur through male and female branches. Nell:
he the daughter of Benedict, married Wasl
"a iugton Lee Gusts. Mr.. Edmund Rogers
es- Baltimore is a lineal descendant OF MI
Oss Custis. Mount Airey, in Prince George
county, Maryland, has been the famn!
the seat of the Calverts for several generation
Mt There is also branch of the family
,il- Riverdale, near Washington.
rob The people of Maryland have not sho"
my themselves deficient in gratitude to tue
ant founders and benefnctors. The commerce
md metropolis of the State is named after T
md CITY in Ireland from which the family q
GUS rived their title; rich, beautiful ana fe
less tile county bears the name OF Gave
SOL another county, Aune Arundel is call
Who after the wife of Cecil; and the county e
res, of ST. Aary's is named after Leonard, Z
olic first governor of Maryland.-Ltppe"co
d of Magazine.