Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-26
MARYLAND DAY
At OLD ST. JOHNS.
DR.. James M. Magruder Delivers
An Interesting Address To
Students.
OLD "REMINISCENCES.
Tells Students To Rejoice That
They Are Counted Worthy
To Suffer In Worlds
Great Crisis.

St. Johns College celebrated Mary
land Day with an interesting program
Of exercises. the chief feature of
which was the stirring historic adj
dress by the Rev. DR.. James NJ. Ma
gruder, recently appointed Chaplain
al Camp Meade.
DR. Magruder spoke in part as fol
lows:
The two basic principles upon
which the Province of Maryland
were founded are the same for which
the titantic struggle upon the battle
fields of Europe is taking place today.
Religious Liberty and Civic Free
dom, by whatever motives Lord Balti-
more was induced to incorporate them
in the fabric of his Empire were the
foundation stones on which he reared
the superstructure of his successful
Palatinate.
To his brother, Leonard Calvert
Lieutenant Governor of the Colony,
and the two Commissioners associat-
ed with him, instructions were issued
by the Proprietary requiring said
Governor and Commissioners through
cut in their voyage to Maryland they
be very careful to preserve peace and
unity amongst all the passengers on
shipp-board and that they suffer no
scandal or offence to be given to any
of the Protestants, whereby any just
complaint may hereafter be made b.
them, in Virginia or in England, and
that for that end, they cause all Acts
of Roman Catholique Religion TO be
done as privately as may be and that
they instruct all the Roman Catho-
liQues to be silent upon all occasions
of discourse concerning matters of
Religion; and that the said Governor
and Commissioners tTeate the Protest
ants with as much mildness and ia
vor as justice will permit And this
to be observed at land as well as at
Sea"
Baltimore, himself, was an adher
ent of the Roman Catholic Church;
but he had been baptized and reared
in the Communion of the Church of
England He seems to have been one
of those large minded men who, ad-
mitting what seems to them fuller
truth, are not embittered against
their former intellectual or spiritual
holdings.
In addition to his truly Catholic
mindedness and liberal views, there
was another strong motive impelling
him to his course of action. He was
founding this Colony not, primarily,
as a place of refuge for his co-relig-
ionists- although, doubtless, this en-
tered into his calculations; but his
was a commercial enterprise from
which ne expected financial returns.
Already George Calvert, the first
Lord Baltimore, had sunk thirty
thousand pounds sterling in the un-
successful attempt to plant the Colony
of Avalon on the inhospitable shores
of New Foundland Here, in this sec
ond attempt on the shores Of the
Chesapeake, Cecilius, the second Lord
baltimore hoped TO recoup a part Of
his fathers losses and, indeed to Sc
cure a princely income for himself.
Every Colonist was allotted a hun
dred acres of land for himself and for
each person brought into the Prov
ince by him. Afterwards this allot-
ment was cut down to fifty acres per
poll; but a yearly rental Of two shil-
lings per fifty acres, whether cult
vated or in swamps and woodlands,
was collected by the ProprietaTy's
agent; thus furnishing that income
which was expected The Rent Rolls
in the Land Office of Maryland are
among the most interesting of the Co
lonial archives
Thus it was to the material adyant
age Of the Lords Baltimore that the
Colony should grow as rapidly as pos
sible and that all the inhabitants
should dwell together in peace and
amity.
The second principle of Civil Lib
erty was no less one of the foundation
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