The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-02-11

for it. Gov. Thomas johnson of Fred
erick is referred to as ''an intimate
friend of my father
If Taney's mother left Calvert coun-
~ at the date of the murder, her hus,
band would then have been over GO
years old.
Hungerford wrote from hearsay
knowledge when he said" ylmer Tier.
nay" was widower with grown sons
and did not mention daughters or wild
ow. The date of Mrs. Taney's death
1914, renders it propable that she sur.
vived the crime, and that, if the occa
sion Of it is correctly stated by Mr.
Hungerford, Michael Taney was then
married man. This would make ii
doubly difficult for the sons political
defender in his biography to defend
the father, who not only slew neigh.
hor, but had q wandering eye upon
the neighbor's maid. In 1903 Roger
was defeated for the Legislature in
Frederick county, so he had lost nc
time trying to regain the seat Calvert
county had refused to give him.
Hungerford says, Roger Taney, like
his father, was naughty and high-tem.
pered in youth. Tyler says Of him
that through life che was Of a most
vehement and passionate nature, which
gave great decisiveness to his opinions
on all subjects and on none more than
politics.
Was fancy of the English or the
Irish race? His paraphraser calls him
"Tiernay.' The local pronunciation
Of the "A" cultural, 'Tawney," indi
Gates English. The settlement of Ma.
ryland by English was diverted to Ire
land, whose Celts, pushed back by the
English, emigrated to the Patuxent in
Irish vessels, and among those may
have been Augio-Irish. ave have nc
record" says Taney, showing the
time of their coming or the country
from which they migrated"
The intentions of the Calvert family
were crosswise, to insure themselves
feudal dignity and have their subor.
dinate aristocracy, and also to get the
best practical immigration. But they
obtained few useful direct immigrants;
the vigor of Maryland came from the
Virginia non-conformists, the South
or Delaware River Dutch and Swedes
and the Germans extended from the
back of Pennsylvania. The early
Catholic settlers of Maryland were, in
their nature OF rractionaries, an unpro.
gressive and minority element. They
made an ignominious attempt to re-
uuCt luc l uIltdlS VII oSN Gil sthtt "SlC
run out by Goodies revolution, but
they supported Talbot's murderer OF
Collector Rousby and Sewall's murder
of Collector Payne, events which led
up to the seizure of Maryland by the
Crown. Walter Peake, who was an
Assemblyman and a Catholic, murder
ed William Price in 1868 and pleaded
he "was drunk and knew not what he
did" He was hanged before his own
house at his request, and the execu-
toner was 4 cow-stealer.
The malarious air of the old coun-
ties no less than the convivial habits
of the Irish and French priests made
drinking constant. Frolicking among
tue fox hunters, male and female, was
attended with lapses of civil morality
A story often repeated in Maryland is
that one of the great CAROLS had to
request his well-maaning parents to
pay heed to the ceremony they had
neglected. After the proprietors became
Protestants they removed their Office S
from the lower counties into the Purl-
tan and Quaker settlements of Severn
and Talbot. Benedict Calvert, natu-
raj son of the fifth Lord Baltimore,
married his daughter to Mrs. Wash
ington's son, and after Custis's death
the young widow married David Stew
art of the descent of the Protestant
rectors of Pohick church. These home
bred Calverts, without title or escut
cheon, became superior or men to theil
loru's cousins, and have abundant pos
tcrity, such as Gen. Lee, our Consu
at Havana; George Calvert, the mod
el farmer, and Charles Calvert, tho
author.
Justice fancy desired to be burie(
beside his mother, whose virtues h'
probably felt struggling in his nature
with the Tancy's tempestuous passions
His curved upper lip, weak chin ant
expression suggest Irish componers'
His attitude at different times w"' IKE
his overbearing fathers, blow up from
cl,yo ,1ri
passive humility to gustv save or'v'
ing. He resented his -'efeat as fed
eralist and changeaAis home. He es.
,ousod tho cams of his German Glen
tage in Fred .1ck and fiercely defend
cd the Re. Jacob Gruber for melting
70 = SIZE insurrection. Then he dc
d Hanson and the Fcdcralists for
he profitable privateersmcns and adj
miralty cases in Baltimore, when Pink
ney's death released that practice.