The Irish standard., 1908-11-07

refuse the oath Of allegiance. which
was sufficient for him to reckon them
sood subjects. Nothing was more
grating to the Puritans than to see the
Papists we'll received at court and
rs the king hated the Puritans ho took
pleasure in mortifying them by car
e%sing their enemies" Ubid. III. D. 3e4)
Rozman, who has studied the Qu.s-i
lion thoroughly. draws this conclusions:
"'The English government, through all
IFS vicissitudes, as well as those of the
New England colonies, from their first
painting 10 their Declaration of Ir-
| al or Independent sect as the establi:,.
cd religion of New England, and by
connirance permitted them to pcrst-.
cute and exclude from their civil gov
crnment, as well as hierarchy. every
Eresunrtuous intruding. heretic II is
!probablc that the English government
would have acted in the same manner
by the Roman Catholic or Marylaad.,.+
u6ozmal H.. p. 495)
The au.hor of "The English in Mary
land dustin Winsor, Mar. and Crit.
Fist. or America. vol. III, u. 564 a.
scrts "tnat Baltimore could, without.
danger, have prohibited the immgra-
ton Of the Puritans, and could have
dissuaded in many ways the seatlr-
lncnt even of conrormists. Not Oily
did he not do any of these things, but
he invited Christians of every name tp
settle in Maryland").
/ Irving Spence, in the EARLY History
, Of the Presbyterian Church, says:
II doubt whether there be older Pres.
Lyterian blood i'm America than n,v,
IN my veins at this moment; bus let
us Go justice. The government nf
Maryland was one of the first organic.
c.l IN Christcndom which made relir;i-
o.s liberation the cornerstone. The
st lord proprietor and his succes5o,;
carried out the purposes Of thci
benevolent ancestor, and while thci.
chartered rights were undisturbed,
/ the inhabitants Of Maryland were as
carefully protected in worshiping God
according to the dictates Of conscience
as they are at this time.
Bancroft says: Lord Baltimore was
the first in the history of the Chris
tan world to seek for religious secur-
Il l.
tjce and not by the exercise of power,
to plan the establishment of popula:
institutions with the enjoyment If
liberty of conscience.
1.-The asylum Of Catholics was the re-
mote spot, where. in a remote corner o..
i world on the banks Of rivers " Len
ais yet had hardly been explored, the
mild forbearance Of u proprietary
adopted religious freedom as the basis
Of the state. Roman Catholics op-
pressed by the laws of England were
sure to find u peaceful asylum in Tic
quiet waters of the Chesapeake, and
there, too, Professionals were sheltered
Iagainst Protestant intolerance.
"Thc disfranclised friends of pre-
lacy from Massachusetts and the l'uri
t.,ns from Virginia were welcomed tc
equal liberty OF conscience and polit-
cal rights in the Roman Catholic pee
vince of Maryland" bancroft, 10th
cd, PIP. 244, 24s, and 257.) Let the
reader compare this statement with
the cardinals.
During the period of Catholic control
is it not evident that all religious dis
cussions which tended to produce dis
cord in the colony. We're promptly and
severely punished in accordance will,
, u proclamation for the suppression o.
all disputes in religion" which was
issued in the early days of the settle
lnent? (Archives of Maryland, vol. 4.
!, pp. 35-39; Archives, 5. Preface, ?. l.,
Can a single instance be cited ("
. show that during the first fifteen year;
o. the existence Of the MARYLAND COL