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

one word consigned the wkele Indian
population Of America to death in the
mines or q the stake.
Italy and Germany, divided into pet
ty powers and Principalities, each facing
the other with their hands upon the
hits Of their swords, while the banner
Of the Crescent was waving in triumph
on the banks Of the Danube. ready to
wrest the remaining half Of the old Ro-
man Empire from the supremacy Of the
cross. Such was the Christian world
beyond the seas when the starry eros,
flung its glittering rays upon the waters
Of the St. Mays.
There are two points in Physical &c.
ography which determine the course
and direction Of river-its source and
its lnouth-meander IS it may, overflow
its banks when it will-the two points,
the source and the mouth, under the in.
fallible law of Ply sizes, determine the gen.
eral direction by which it pours its wa
tiers into the ocean. So it 10 with his
tory.
The colonial history Of Maryland be-
gan with the grand idea of one law for
all men in matters civil. political and
ecclesiastical. The force Of the ideas
it eliminated ended in the American ma
tionality of l776. The force of the one
idea which inspired the visionary dream
er amid the palms of Engaddi. wrested
the whole Of Asia and one half of Chris
tendon from the dominion of the Chris
tian Caesars.
On the continent Of America the one
law Of political unity is now rearing a
grander political power than Rome ever
saw or the Caliphs ever dreamed.
The colonial history of Maryland from
The landing Of the Pilgrim Fathers at
Saint Mary's, 1884, to the Declaration
Of independence, l776, may be divided
into four distinct periods. Each ofthose
periods, however diversified by incl
dents peculiar to themselves or modified
BY eotemporaneous history Of other
American colonies or BY the dynastic
or political phases Of the mother land,
all teach the same lesson. that the uni
.y Of the law. civil, political and ecele-
siastical. is the political rock of ages.
The first period. from the settlement
at Saint Mary's in 1884 to the usurpa-
ton Of Cromwell in 1850, includes the
general colonial policy-municipal reg
nlations and legislative acts which dis
tinguished the administration of Leon
ard Calvert, the pioneer Governor-the
struggle with Clayborne for the possess
sion Of Kent lsland-and closes with the
rebellious civil wars and sectarian per-
secutions which marked the rise. pro-
gress and final ascendancy of the Puri-
tan party in the province.
The second period, from the usurpa-
ton Of Cromwell in 1850 to the restora.
ton Of Charles the Second in 1860,
opens with the reduction of the province
by the Parliamentary Commissioners,
the suppression Of the Catholic worship,
the disfranchise Of its seetaries,
and closes with the bitter anti-papal
statutes Of fierce and intolerant secta-
rian legislature.
The third period. from the restoration
Of Charles the Second in 1860 to tbeAc-
eession of William and Mary in 1859,
embracing the reigns of Charles II. and
James H.. contains history of piracy
and smuggling, its baneful effect. upon
the commercial prosperity Of the COLO
ny. Fendalls instruction, trial and BAN
ishment, the restrictive acts Of Parlia-
ment upon colonial exports. the state Of
morals and the boundary dispute be-
tween William Penn and Lord Balti-
more.
The fourth period. from the accession
Of William and Mary 10 1859 to l776,
includes the removal okthe colonial
capital from Saint Mays to Annapolis
in 1894, embraces the Protestant revo-
luton Of 1889. the fall Of the propsAiaary
government, the administration Of the
first Royal Governor. Sir Lyonel Cop
ley. the establishment Of the Church Of
England BY iar in the province. the sec.
ond Acknowledgement Of the Catholic
population, change Of the system Of
laws. the cooperation Of the Catholic
gentry with the French and Buccaneers
to restore James H., its detection and
defeat. the suppression and dispersion Of
the Buccaneers, and closes with The e.
nal eonsolidstioa Of King williams au-
thosity and that Of his successor in the
temporal and ecclesiastical policies Of
the English colonies in America and in
ter-eolonial wars.
II 10 from the material Of these Pc
riods that the historian must collect the
insesuments 10 cover the dry boa>s a
geaeral history. to give them arsieulaie
and muscular life to breathe the thoughts.
opinions and feelings Of that generstioa