The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-06-27


little stream which emptied itself
into the great Potomac but a little
way from the bay. The mighty Pc
tomac, flowing silent between lis wide
banks there in the lonely wilderness,
made a deep impression on them.
The Thames, compared with it," they
said. "can scarcely be considered d
rivulet. IL is not rendered impure
By marshes, bat on each bank Of solid
earth rise beautiful groves Of trees.
not choked up with an underground
Of brambles and bushes, but as II laid
out BY the hand, In manner 30 open
that you might easily drive a four.
horse chariot In the midst Of the
trees" II was this broad and stately
stream which was 10 be their boun
Diary line, separating them from V1r.
GINA. Lord Baltimore called his
province Maryland. IN honor Of the
queen, and the first settlement there
on the bluff they called St. Mary's, In
honor Of the Virgin.
Maryland's settlers had come to
stay. and yearly spread and multi
piled, and the Virginians IN due
time let their anger cool. singular
good fortune and provident good
management made them secure from
the first against any starving time
such as there had been at Jamestown
or any bitter struggle 20 live AMI
make a beginning.
They had found an Indian village
a. ST. Mary's where they landed. ionf
long established and set in the mit.r
Of open fields cultivated and ready
for the plough. The Indians whose
home the place had been freely sold
them both its wigwams and is fallow
clearings, for q few hatchets and hoes
and a little cloth. Before the white
men caine they had resolved 70 quit
the region, 10 be rid Of fear 81 the
susquehannocks, the terrible Iroquois
neighbors whose inroads made peace
impossible. Here were cornfields
ready for the planting, therefore. and
the very first autumn Of Their stay
on that wide wilderness the new col
onists had grain enough 70 send
shipload to Nc England, to be ex-
changed for salt goldfish. The Virgin
ians, for all they hated them, did not
refuse to sell them cattle and swine
al profit; and want was not m en-
envy they needed 20 reckon with.
Maryland turned out another Vlr-
ginia IN is ways 81 life and govern
ment. In form, indeed, It's govern
ment was very different. The King
had no direct authority there. Lord
Baltimore was made by his charter
liter, q proprietor Of the colony
sort OF feudal prince, from whom and
not from the King, all titles and au
thority we're 70 be derived.
But. notwithstanding his power
was 50 great on paper, he did not in
f~-f no % 70 five tho colonV a char
scter apart. Assemblies Of tho free
Incn nist and made terms with tbs
proprietor in Maryland 81 they had
met and made terms with the com
/ pany in Virginia. Al first, while al
the settlers were stiil within easy
reach Of St. Mary's. there were no
elections. The freemen came them
selves instead 81 choosing represen.
tativss. II was only b. slow degrees
that q system Of elections WAS estab-
lished. But IN the end things were
arranged in Virginia, in matters o.
government no less than in matters
Of daily life.
There were broad rivers in Mary
land az IN Virginia. and ships traded
from wharf 20 wharf upon them az
in the older colony. There were few
villages and many spreading plana
tons. Nirginians might have felt
that there was practically little dir
ference between their own colony
and Lori Baltimore's, had they not
seen Roman Catholics enjoy rights
Of worship there which were not
granted them in Virginia. Virgin.
ians were expected % observe the ri.
ual and ORDER Of the Church Of Eng.
land. Only in Maryland was there
| freedom in such matters. and TIE
freedom there made Virginians feel
unoasily, that Maryland vas In some
unlawful way a Jesuit and paplft re-
fuge. which would bear Jealous waeh-
/ ing. The two colonies might speedi
! b have forgot their differences but
for that
Tomorrow-The Expansion Of New
England.