The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-01-04

undrums about the cunning fitting of Boss
Tweed"
A quite different train of political re-
Election is aroused by an anecdote related
of the old Wye manor, which for more than
two centuries has been the home of the
descendants Of Edward Lloyd, the Puri-
tan, and is now presided over by the grand
daughter of Colonel John Eager Howard
Of revolutionary fame, and of Francis
Scott Key, author of the Star Spanglcd
Banner.
In Governor Lloyd's time there was a
certain steward, or bailiff, at Wye, one
| Captain Anthony of St. Michaers, at one
time master of a bay craft in the service
of the governor. This man was the owner
of likely negro boy who escaped from
requirements, and address became known
to the world as Frederick Douglass In
1881 Mr.. Douglass, being then marshal of
| the District of Columbia, was moved to
| revisit the scenes of his childhood and his
thrall, and one day found himself on the
porch of Wye House, where he was re-
ceived by the sons of Colonel Lloyd their
father being absent, with that courtesy
which is extended to every stranger Who
finds his way thither. When he had made
known the motive of his visit. he was con-
Quoted over the estate, from spot to spot
that he remembered and described with
| all their childish associations: here a
| spring, there a hedge. a lane, a field, a tree.
| ed them by some simple incident, and all
| the glowing heart of the man seemed to
| 20 out to the place as he passed from
ghost to ghost as in Il dream. And then a
strange thing happened: standing mute
and muSing for while, he said slowly and
low. as one who talks in his sleep: Over
in them woods was wlar me and Mars
Dan u>etcr trap rabbits Mars Dan was
the governor son. Was it the mans
half playful. half-pathetic sense ofthe gro
tesque incongruity of the situation: Or
was it glamcr?-all the tremendous signif-
canoe of phenomenal life compacted into
the homely reflection and phrase of a bare
foot 'darky.'
He plucked flowers from the grave of
dead LlOyds he had known, and at the
table drank to the health of the master of
the old house and of his children. that
they and their descendants may worthily
maintain the character and the fame of
| their ancestors
Mr.. Palmer's account of pre-revolution-
ary manners and morals outside of aris-
tocratic circles is hardly fiattering to the
colonists, even the clergy seeming to have
been no better than they should be.
From ,20 to the breaking out of the
revolution one might have found bad
spelling bad manners, and bad language
| in the conduct. conversation and CORES
pondence of the colonists. Education was
| little better than tramp, and religion. in
| the garb of the Establishment, was slat
| tern sadly given to drink. The school
| masters were mainly derived from the
class of redemptioners and convict SER
| wants, for the most part disreputable lot
of the hedge priest sort, who had more of
Latin and Greek than of the humanities or
the Ten Commandments In February,
1774. John Hammond advertises: ITO be
sold, SchoOlmaster, an indented servant
that hath got two years to serve;" and
among the possible Eugene Arams of
Prince Georges county in 1854 were 'Jer-
| emiah Barry's indented servant, Enoch
Magfuder's, Samuel Selby's, and Daniel
Wallahorn's convict servants & Thomas
Harrison, a convict Education was re-
stricted to classes, and young women and
girls had but small share in it. The
wealthy planters sent their sons to Eng
| land to be educated knowing that honors
| and profits, under proprietary patronage,
| were first of all for graduates of Oxford
and Cambridge. who were familiar with
| EPSON and Newmarket. and confident Of
the favor of an English governor.
The gross and groveling pedagogue
was the natural confrere and crony of the
bibulous and licentious parson. The for
mer was the creature of the vestrv, and
might be removed. but the latter held un-
| der the lord proprietary; the vestry might
| denOuncc him. the commissarv of the prov
ince under the Bishop of London might
convict him, but still he held on. for his
holding was an advowson.
The clergy of England at that time ii q
urcd as courtiers, political pamphleteers,
LAWYERS. uSurers police magistrates, Fleet
parsons, foX-hunters, umpireS at dog-fghtS
| and wreStlinw mat chcS. stewards of coun-
try squires and tools of place-holders-
everything but gentlemen or decent citi-
zcnS. Even so early as 1856, John Ham
mond, in his Leah and Rachel maryland
and Nirginia.) writes Virginia savoring
not handsomely in England. very few
[clergvmcn of good conversation would
adventure thither, aS thinking it place
wherein surely the fear of God was not:
vet MANY came such as wore black coats
and could babble in a pulpit, roar in
tavern, exact from their rarishionerS. and
bv their diSsolutcne-S rather destroy than
feed their flocks. This indictment ap-
plies with even more force to the import
ed ccrgymen of Maryland, where the
! nDlucf Oh an duNbN son untltT LOGu Ddll1-
more was amcndahlc to nothing snort of
the criminal law. Any one was thought
good enough To serve the church in Mary
land 50 that priests Willingness to emf
crate to the Plantations was even regard
ed as il Slur upon his character.
In l1l4 Governor Hart wrote to the
Bishop of LonCon There are some rec
tors in Maryland whose education and NOR
ais are scandal to their profession, and
am amazed how such illiterate men came to
be i'll Holy Orders;' and DR.. Chandler
wrote to the bishop in 153: 1T would
really, my lord, make the ears of sober
heather tingle to hear the stories that were
tol me by many serious people of sere al