Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-15

country gentleman until brought into
prominence in I773 bv his contention
through the columns of the Maryland
Gazette, with Daniel Dulaney, Governor
Eden's Secretary, against the Governors
fees arbitrarily exacted against the will
Of the peoples representatives. His ar
guments were published anonymously.
and in one Of them he describes himself
as "A man Of an independent fortune.
one deeply interested in the prosperity
Of his country; a friend 70 liberty, a
settled enemy to lawless prerogative."
AS the troublous times Of the American
Revolution approached. his signal abli-
ties, his great wealth, and, more than
all else. his patriotism, caused the limi-
tations, that had hitherto prevented him
as "Papist" from holding a seat in the
Assembly, to be set aside, and in IT'S
he entered upon his long career of con-
spcuous public service. Member Of the
Maryland PROVINCIAL Convention and
Council OF Safety, Commissioner of the
Continental Congress to visit Canada
jointly with Benjamin Franklin and
Samuel Chase early in l776. we find him
referred TO by John Adams at this time
as "a professor Of the Roman Catholic
religion; yet warm. a firm. a jealous
supporter Of the rights OF America, in
whose cause he has risked his ALL"
Elected a delegate from Maryland to
the Continental Congress on the 4th OF
July, 1776, he took his seat at Philadel-
phia on the 18th, and on the 18th the
Declaration, which had been adopted on
the day OF his election, was ordered to
be engrossed, and was signed by him
and the other delegates then present on
August I'd. John Hancock, the Presi-
dent Of Congress. after the Declaration
had been placed on the Secretary's desk.
while in conversation with Charles Car
roll Of Carrollton, said 10 him, VIII
you sign itT Most willingly was the
prompt reply, and as he made his sigma
ture, a member standing near observed.
There go few millions, and all adj
mitted that few risked as much in
material sense, as the wealthy Mary
lander"
The chapters covering the period OF
more than half a century Of his public
life have. OF course, the greatest value.
and the author, very commercially.
makes the correspondence and contem-
porary records form the narrative as far
as practicable. His death came so late
as 1892, when in his 96th year. One OF
his granddaughter having married the
Marquis of Wellesley, who was then liv-
ing in vice-regal state at Dublin as Lord
Lieutenan. of Ireland. Bishop England,
of South Carolina, in proposing a 4th or
July toast in 1897, expressed this senti-
ment: Charles Carroll OF Carrollton; in
the land from which his grandfather fed
in terror his granddaughter now reigns
a queen"
We can commend his correspondence
and public papers for a careful, thought
full reading to those persons who, from
the considera lions presented by Josiah
Strong in Our Country" and by other
writer's from his viewpoint, may have
acquired mortal dread Of the Rule OF
Rome in America" They will help the
mind to a conclusion that the American
Catholic is an American first and
Catholic afterwards.
Mechanically, these volumes are very
satisfactory. adequately illustrated ana
well indexed. Only $50 copies are printed.
and the author states that they have
been prepared at the request of a MEM
Der Of the Carroll family. who derrays
the whole cost OF their publication"