Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-07-13

political saysten which in the process
Of time nd co1rst Of events developed
ials neessity tie srand problem Of free
gdvessNe1s-Gnd wko H sndesRsas
the mystic transformation Of men-born
with al Tie prejpdices Of . monarchy
Of Eve centuries duratiouH becoming in
tie fourseore years allotted to the life
Of man. Revolutionary democracy
which in the lapse ofyears consummated
the American Revolution of l77e-the
most sublime event in the political his
tory Of the human race.
A change, % extraordinary. in 20
short time. can only be attributed to
that progression Of ideas expanded into
the moral sublime-upon behcldins in
the New World, nature cast into her
most sublime and gigantic proportions
-quickened by the fact-that each and
all found themselves proprietors Of the
soil limited in quantity only-by the
means Of occupation and cultiv alton
which alone was sufficient to inspire
men born amid the crowded populations
Of Europe under all the hereditary disa-
bilities Of caste and the feudal system,
with that species Of moral and individ-
ual independence which sovereignty
in the soil ever confers upon those who
till It.
How lowly soever in birth or station
or humble in circumstances q man
may be. inspire him with some ennob-
ling principle Of act;on-some aspira-
ton beyond the incessant and daily
struggle for food and raiment-some
hope above the temporary exigencies of
the present-you make him nobleman
endowed with all the lofty graces Of
maahood-you make him citizen ca
pable Of meeting ill the questions Of
seli.government. Let him feel that his
life is an unwritten history, to react
for good or for i'll upon those around
or after him-that his acts and his opin.
ions will be indirectly reflected in the
legislative history Of his country-you
make him Sovereign lord" in creation.
History, that superficial log-book
which chronicles the storms that agitate
the surface and the waits that indicate
the winds and the currents of the grea.
ocean Of human life, tells US in few
words that the province Of Maryland
was colonized under the tenor and i'm
port Of a charter granted by his Majesty
Charles I. to Cecilius Calvert, Lord
Baron of Baltimore, in 1882. that its
Capital City, Saint Mary's, was located
on the banks Of the Saint Mary's river
in 1884 BY Leonard Calvert, the broth
er and pioneer Governor Of the Lord
Proprietor-that the act for its transfer
to the banks of the Severn was passed
in l693-during the administration OF
Sir Lyonel ,Copley-the first Governor
sppoiAteSbs The Crown on the demise
Of. the proprietary charter after the Eng
li.h Revolution Of 1888 and the transfer
Of saideapital to Annapolis va. eonsum-
mated by Sir Francis Nicholson in 1864
that the sixty years. which interviewed
between the founding of the capital on
the banks Of the Saint Mays Ind its
removal to the Severn, wa. marked in
the province BY the same struggle. for
political power and .ectarian ascenden-
cy-which constitutes the same period
of time in the Old World with its grand.
er events-the most important epoch in
Engiand's history-that for the Great
Rebellion" which defeated, dethroned
and beheaded the martyred successor
of a long line Of kings-we have the
instruction of Clayborne which drove
the Proprietary Governor q fugitive
from his capital. The usurpation OF
Cromwell was re Aected in the admin
istration Of Fendall. The restoration Of
the Second Charles was followed by
the restitution Of The proprietary govern
ment Of Maryland to the second Lord
Of Baltimore and finally the Revolution
Of 1888 which numbered the days Of
the Stuart dy Asty had its counterpart
in the Prote1nst Revolution Of 1889 in
Maryland and the subsequent forfeiture
Of the proprietary Charter"
But with that s1sR.ee synopsis Of
colonial affair, ii Esryland there come.
that unvritten history Of the fierce and
bitter war Of the passions which ever
RACES between the eonqDerors and the
eonquered-who are doomed to live
upon the same soil and under the same
sky-the vindietive triumph Of the dom
inant faction With it, impeachments,
trials, fines. forfeitures. eon6seatieos,
Islanders, The dark sca6old, the bloody
grave, the bitter hatred ofthe per'eeuted
and the faalen,S ss cullen in it, raneor
as-it is impd,ent 10 svenge.
There arenoments u the history Of
individuals Ghsh the 1e&s-ss svift as
the 6ask 81 thought-pssse. from bright