The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-03-10

Jonas Green. in publishing it in handbill
form, took preeauion to inform the public
that the card was no part of the Gazette.
But, by this act of prudence. 1t must not be
understood that this editor of the one newspa-
per then published in Maryland faltered in his
defense of American liberties. On the con-
trlry, from the beginning TO the end of the
Revolutionary struggle Jonas Green, while
using his profession as a means of livelihood,
then as he had always done. conducted his
Journal under the profound conviction that
the press has "A high and honorably duty to
perform for the public that ought not be
marred by the fear of loss or hope of gain.
The lawyers of the times, members of the
most brilliant and talented bar in all the col
onies. almost to a man rallied to the support
OF the patriot cause and when the sound OF
arms was heard many of them rendered rs
valiant service in the field as they had in the
forum. Indeed, had it not been for the law
yers of Maryland in the Revolution the people
Of this province would have been without in
telhgent, educated leadership in the contest.
Ii was October 10, l774, that Major War
field, of Au.-e Arundel, at the head of his
troops rode up to the door of the Peggy Stew
art House. on Hanover street, aud from hls
saddle told Anthony Stewart, ''Burn or hang,
and Anthony Stewart that day burned his ship
and lis hateful chests of tea. Nor was tins
the only burnt offering on the altar of liberty
made by the citizens of this county before the
Declaration of Independence was promul-
gated On July is, 1875, the ship Totness,
CAPTAIN Harding, owned in England, ran
aground near Herring Bay. The citizens dis
covered that 1t had on board an inlerdieted
cargo. aud they, highly rcsenting so daring an
infringement of their continental association,
"A number OF the people met, went ON board
The shin and set her on fire.
When Boston was blockaded, May 25, IVA,
the people ot Annapolis assembled aud re
solved that ''the town of Boston is now suffer
in,r in the common cause of America, and
that It is incumbent on every colony IN Amer
lea to unite in efleetual measures to obtain
repeal of the late act G Parliament, block
aiding the harbor Of Boston. They then
resolved further to stop all dealings with Eng
land until the act was repealed, and with any
other colony that would not enter into a simi-
lar agreement of non-eXportatlon.
MARYLAND ~ THE REVOLUTION.
MARYLAND had long forseen the inevitable.
The people assembled in convention IN IVA,
and IL Is interesting to note that the reSolu-
tons that they passed began with tervent ex-
pressions of LOYALTY to the mother country and
ended with plans TO buy guns and ammunition
aud To create an army.
Two paragraphs we're furnished by the City
of Annapolis to the Declaration OF lndepen-
dence-the count charging the quartering OF
troops on the citizens of the Colonies, and the
paragraph accusing the King of protecting his
armed ,roops bv mocktrials from punishment
for murders committed upon the citizens Of
the Colonies. Both Of these events occurred
at Annapolis.
When that day came, June 10, lT75, to
nominate - Commander-in- Chief of the Con
tinsntal Army. Il was Maryland member Of
| CONGRESS. Thomas johnson. who rose in his
rlaee and nominated George Washington to
be that Commander .iuChiet.
Wheu the struggle was on, Maryland, IN
/ proportion % as inhabitants, contributed more
men Ia The Continental Army than any other
| Of the 1s Colonies They were good soldiers
and more than once saved the day. Ii was
at Cowpeas. when the army was under a ms
take of orders. retiring before the victorious
| Brush Ara,y. that Johu Eager Howard gave
bis order. and said, "Right about Charge
| iavun.ls +. and the old Maryland lime swept
| b,ek iota the lAcs. Of the advancing redcoats,
| and matched triumphant victory from threat
enel defeat After tins General Greene or
| dered ihaI the Marylanders should u-e the
/ hsv8uei IN eyerf battle. Il Was at Monmouth,
I tb.. only time when the Father of HIS Country
/ Is recorded to have taken high oath before
| sail higher Heaven, be saw the retreat thar
| lee had ordered, that Washington sand to an
| officer ''If yaa can hold the British Army
| for ten minutes. until can reform my lines,
sra will save thr army II will do il or
| f,n = was the reply. aud be held the enemy
| three times ten, aud saved the Americ:n
| Array from destruction. That officer WAS
| Col. Nathaniel Ramsay. and has soldiers were
| S,ua{lwo1d, /, Battalion of Maryianders. At
| Ion, Island. when the Four Hundred charged
| "a death and glory, 1t was again that the men
1T MARYLAND STAYED disaster. Behind them
wss The fugitive American Army, dashing into
moraSs and river 90 sink aud die; beyond the
| devoted battalion OF Marylanders were the
victorious redCuats Ia pursuit OF the flying
| Americans. Unee, twice. thrice, the -Four
| Hundred. viih Gist al their head, charged
| the foe With such yigor and success that Corn
/ Wallis. for moment, contemplated retreat
| with hts overwhelmingly superior iuree As
| the -Four Hundred fell for The lives OF others
ana saved the army from destruction, there
xs,s bat one command heard in their ranks
| ,hat rose above the roar OF this maelstrom OF
death. Il was Close up the ranks Close
| up the ranks Z as they marched 10 death aud
| eternal fame. Fe tell il To our children with
pride, that IL Was for them, as be watched
| their magnificent charges from the hilltop,
| that Washington wept and cried out bitterly,
my God, what brave men | have to lose to
day y
A few days after the surrender of Corn
wallis General Washington wrote these words
| ia his own hand TO Governor Lee, OF Mary
land
! YogkTowN, October -, 1871.
"My present engagements will not allow
me 10 add more than my congratulations on
| thi, happy event, and to express the high
sense | have of the powerful aid | have re-
ceivrd from the State OF Maryland in comPil-
aucr with my every request to the Executive
MARITAL FAMILIES.
1t is suggestive 10 note thai the names that
| made Maryland illnstrious IN the Revolution
ary War have recurred with almost every
| n,.ssing conflict. Some of these are the
| Rowies. the Gathers, the Smiths, Goldsblr-
ourhs, Warfirlds. Stewarts, Halls, Earless,
| C;riflifhs. Ridgelys, Hammonds, Dorseys, and,
| hidden under the paternal names, scores OF
| others who from their womanly and patriotic
mothers still transmit to the generations the
! blood of those who built this Commonwealth
and contributed a phenomenal share in the
| construction Of the Federal Union.
| Apropos of this hereditary martial spirit,
We must not forget that the Maryland National
| Guard WAS the first volunteer organization IN
| camp after the President had ISSUED his call
| for volunteers for the Spanish American War,
| ana Wien SECRETARY l4bti- thSAN' 7N ~ y
| soon he could report for duty with has naval
| battalion. and was told that very evening, he
| did not believe what he read, and telegraphed
| hack for confirmation The battalion reported
| for dnty within few hours OF the order to
report
Nor were our Maryland foreiathers services
| eminent alone in the field in the Revolutionary
struggle. For refusing until she had accom-
plished her purpose, amid yituperation and
misconstruction, to sign the Articles OF Con
| federation, aud the larger States had given up
| their claims TO the 'baek lands, she has re-
eeived the perpetual gratitude of the people,
aud, in the language of Mr.. John Fiske,
MARYLAND, by leading the way toward the
creation of national domain, laid the corner
| stone of our Federal Union"
THE STATESMEN OF MARYLAND.
After the formation of the Union, when
radicals North and South threatened by theiI
dissensions to disrupt the federation, the
| statesmen of the Union always looked to the
statesmen of MARYLAND for that conservative
course which would guide them to the haven
of safety, and Marylanders never disappointed
their hopes.
Naturally. as the mind bent far to the severe
| it nnbent to the cheerful and it came about
in Il very logical manner that Annapoli;
erected the first arena for the dramatic art
and while its intelligent company of heroes
lawyers, Judges. Legislators, Governors and
other officers made it 'The Athens of Amer
lea and there arose, appendant and appur
tenant TO it. a society in which luxuriOu,