The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-02
Our 0lio.
MARYLAND OR NEW ENGLAND ?
Which Merits the Glory the Latter ha.
Seized.

Col. j. Thomas seharf in The BALTIC. Sunday News.
In exposing the Justification of history,
The News deserves the especial thanks of
our people. The historians of New Eng
land, and their orators at their annual din
ners, have been glorifying New England
and the Puritans so long at the expense of
the remainder of the people of the country,
and CLOSING over the indubitable facts of
history which tell very different tale, that
it is time we were looking into history
little The News deserves the special
thanks of our people for its recent expo
sures of the Justification of history 1t is
impossible for genuine descendant of the
Pilgrims to divest himself of the notion
that Plymouth Rock, the blarney stone of
New England, is an idol for public wor-
ship; that the descendant of the Pilgrims
who came over in the Mayfower are of a
superior race; that they are born to rule
over all other races by force or fraud, not
withstanding the Declaration of Independ-
ence that call men are created equal" and
that New England's superiority, past and
present, must be asserted and maintained.
If history will not answer these ends, make
new history; if facts are required, make facts;
if the truth is an obstacle, write falsehoods.
IF any reputation is in the way, down with
it, whether it be of the living or dead.
"The world was made for Caesar
Anyone unacquainted with the facts of
history would conclude that it was the
New Englander who fought and won the
battles of the Revolution, and brought it
to victorious close at Yorktown. All the
men of other States who fought under
Washington are entirely ignored and the
New Englanders are brought to the front
as the only heroes deserving of even pass
ing remembrance, just as they, too, and
none others marched with Sherman through
Georgia, and triumphed with Grant at Ap-
pomattox.
In support of these impudent assump-
tions the Hon. Chauncey F. Depew in
speech at late New England dinner, said,
that the descendants of the Puritans "haz-
arded all for freedom, fought at Bunker
Hill and triumphed at Yorktown, threw
his life and home into the contest for free
soil in Kansas and for the Freedom of the
slave on John Browns scaffold at Har-
pers Ferry, marched with the Sixth Mas
sachusetts through Baltimore to save the
Capital, and with Sherman through Geor-
gia to the sea, and stood by Grant at Ap.
We all know it is the creed and innate
feeling of all New Englanders to deny the
Southern States their rights in this con-
federacy as co-equal partners. If any one
thinks this is exaggeration, as The News
well says, let him turn to the schoolbooks
out of which his children are forced to get
what is called education" or let him read
a little of what, at Harvard, is known as
"historical literature"
MARYLAND'S CRY WAS LIBERTY.
In the struggle which secured our indie
pendence no State bore more conspicuous
and heroic part than Maryland. As early
as 1869 brig arriving in Annapolis with
taxed tea was compelled to return to Eng
land with her whole cargo. Long before
the destruction of the obnoxious tea in
Boston harbor by thirty disguised men,
the patriots of Maryland boldly and openly
set Massachusetts, an example, which she
followed secretly and in darkness. On
October u, 1774, the men of Maryland in
broad daylight burnt the brig Perry Stew
art because it contained few boxes of the
hated tea which had paid duty to England
Long before hostilities were declared, in
March, 1775, William Eddis, of Annapo-
lis, wrote that alarge sums were being col
lected in Maryland for the purchase oi
arms and ammunition" and declared that
athe universal cry in this province is Lib
erty.n
Thomas johnson, one of the delegates
from Maryland to the Continental Con
gress, on June 15, 1775, nominated hi
friend George Washington for commander
in-chief of the army, and two days late
the Americans were repulsed from Bunke
Hill. On August Ii Michael Cresap'
Frederick county rifemen were the frs
soldiers from the South to join Washington
at Cambridge, Mass.