The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-26

was not to be throttled. mems senti-
ments were not to be too curiously
looked into. The exiled royalists who
came steadily in. seeking a refuge.
need sacrifice nothing but what they
mad already given up. Their very
Tight vas confession of defeat: here
IN Virginia defeat might seem less
bitter. though the necessity to obey
Parliament and the Lord Protector was
not less Imperative.
In Maryland. Virginia's neighbor.
things wore a much harder face be-
cause OF the revolution. The Parlia-
ments commissioners were friends Of
Virginia. and had dealt very lightly
with her, but they felt no kindness for
Maryland. Before their coming the
little province had had its own taste
or war. Late in 1914 William Clay
borne. seeing his opportunity. had
seized Kent Island again. from which
Lord Baltimore had driven him at the
hrst setting up Of his government; and
in February. 1645. one Richard lngle.
master of the armed ship Reformation.
bearing letters of marQue from the
Parliament. put men and arms ashore
and seized st. Mary's itself. at pleased
God" Ingie said. ito enable him to
take divers places" from the pspists
and malignants. and to make him a
support to the well affected" and IL
was close upon two years before Leo
nard Calvert found himself strong
enough to bring force out Of Virginia
and re-establish his brothers au-
thority. The government of the prov
inCe had not been destroyed. the
while. but there had been a sad time
of disorder and reprisal: partisans Of
the proprietor and of the King had
seen their affairs shamefully handled:
and the men who ruled had governed
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revolution. And then. six years later
G652). the parliamentary commission
ers came. and William Clayborne was
one of them. They assisted I65D to
put the government Of the colony into
the hands of a group of Puritans who
had made a settlement there. and for a
time-until Cromwell himself inter-
vened to give Lord Baltimore his
rights again-the distracted province
full minority.
The new government in England
meant to maintain its authority in the
colonies and at home no less steadily
and effectively than the old govern
ment of the King had done. and Crom-
well. when he became lord protector.
proved more watchful master than
Charles had ever been. as well as a
more just. But Massachusetts, took
leave. because it was a government Of
Puritans and her own friends. to prac-
dence in the management of her own
affairs which she had all along meant
and contrived to maintain.
She took occasion. while things went
their new WAY. to set her own govern
ment in order G64D. while England
was too much distracted to know what
sort of government she herself had.
The Bay government was not a COM
Portable government for any man to
live under who was not Puritan. The
magistrates stood behind the ministers
of the congregation to enforce their
judgments in matters Of morals. as
well as to fulfill the laws commands
in every ordinary matter of govern
ment. The authority Of the clergy was
given clear definition Of law: the power
of the magistrates to coerce all
churches which should walk incor-
rightly or obstinately in any corrupt
way of their own" was affirmed more
definitely than ever: and the ecclesias-
teal polity of the New England
churches was declared to be such
a CONGREGATIONAL establishment as
should in no wise be COMPOUNDED with
any of those corrupt sects and here
sizes which showed themselves under
the vast title of INDEPENDENCE" This
court submitted to the congregations
and the several congregations adopted
Hcnceforth no man need doubt what
compulsion of worship and BELIEF he
must live under there.
New Haven and Connecticut could
have admired the orderly peace and
prosperity OF Massachusetts more If
they had found her juster and more
generous in the part she played in the
government of the confederation. She
would not vote TO help New Haven get
redress for the injuries which the
Dutch had done her in the South
River: she absolutely refused to take
part in levying war on the Dutch when
the other commissioners of the con-
federation voted it. when England her
self was at war with the Netherlands:
and she demanded tolls upon all goods
brought from the other colonies into
Roston. because the confederation sus-
tanned Connecticut's right to charge
tolls at the mouth of the Connecticut
River. 1t seemed n profitless partner
shin enough to Plymouth and Connec-
ticut. but most of all to New Haven.
which had suffered most from the
Dutch.
New NetherIand began to show itself
stronger than ever under new COVER
nor-no very wise man. but much bet
ter than Van Twiller and kieft and
no rest of the foolish men who had
preceded him. Peter Stuyvesant had
been sent over as governor In 1917
He made an odd figure with his wooden
leg. marvelously contrived with bands
and ornaments of silver. and the sly
burghers Of the supplemented New
world made a jest of his pretentious
way Of carrying himself by calling him