White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-18
HISTORIC LANDMARKS
SAVED BY ANNAPOLIS
Maryland Capital Sets Ex-
ample to Other Cities.

marks Of American communities, point
to Annapolis, Md, as city which has
preserved many mementos Of its past.
In a communication to the National
Geographic society, DR.. Gilbert Gros-
venor, its president, describes some as
poets of the colonial capital which, in
part, follows:
annapolis has been preserved as
our country's most truly colonial city.
You may wander about this fine old
community and feel that you are liv-
ing in those dramatic days when the
little city on the Severn had a major
part in shaping the course Of the ma
TONS history.
"Going down to the water front, you
can pick out sailing craft and vision
the square-sterned, Cotton brgantine,
Peggy Stewart, which, on October Is,
1874, arrived at Annapolis from Eng
land with an assorted cargo, including
II packages of tea. Anthony Stewart,
the owner of the brig, was Mary
lander who had signed the nonimpor-
tation agreement. In order to unload
the bulk of the cargo, he rashly paid
the duty on the tea.
"When he was called to account he
begged to be allowed to burn the tea
publicly. But he was not to escape
SO lightly. Finally Stewart purged
himself by undertaking to burn his
brig, with the tea aboard.
According to John Galloway, an
eye witness, the majority would have
been satisfied to burn the tea; but,
however that may be, 1t was an act
that fired the colonies and cast Mary
lands lot irrevocably with the forces
of freedom. A picture of the firing of
the Peggy Stewart hangs on the walls
Of the statehouse.
Why Carroll Identified Himself.
"Charles Carroll headed the delega-
ton chosen at Annapolis to represent
the province in the Continental con-
gress.
"When it came his turn to sign the
Declaration of Independence, there
was some bantering remark as to
whether the signers would hang singly
or hang together, If the Revolution
should fail.
"Some one added that Carroll would
have a chance to escape, because
there we're so many Charles CAROLS
that the British would not know which
to seize.
"Thereupon Carroll reached for his
pen and added the words, of Carroll
TOM with remark that now they
would have no trouble to identify
him If he were ever called upon to
forfeit his life for the part he played
In the cause of independence. Carroll
outlived all the other signers, dying
November IA, 1882, at the age of nine
ty-five years.
Begun in 1772, the Maryland cap
itol is filled with memories of these
eventful years. Scores of pictures
that grace it's walls are of that famous
body of soldiers, the Maryland line
companies, regiments, and brigades OF
which fought on every major Revolu-
tionary battlefield from Massachusetts
to Georgia.
''The voice of General Washington
himself comes down the years, as he
told Ramsay at Monmouth that If you
can stop the British for ten minutes,
until can form, you will save my
army He held them thirty minutes
And we hear General Greene saying
of charge by the Marylanders at
Eutaw Springs that 1T exceeded any
thing l ever saw
"Maryland withheld neither men nor
money that the colonies might be free
and no state, in proportion to popula.
ton and wealth, contributed more OF
either.
Contribution to Union.
"While her soldiers were fighting
so valiantly, her statesmen, meeting
in the halls Of the old statehouse at
Annapolis, originated pioneer
thought that prevented the colonies
from falling apart after their victory
With great foresight, the Maryland
leaders realized that the harmonious
relations existing between the thirteen
colonies must inevitably be destroyed
after the triumph OF American arms
by bitter disputes arising as to the
ownership of the vast region north
west of the Ohio. east of the Missis
sippi, and south Of the Great Lakes
"Knowng from boundary expert
ences with her neighbors the enmity
that disputes about land engender
Maryland, though giving unsparingly
of men and substance to the Continen
tai armies, refused 10 sign the articles
of confederation unless assured that
vacant Western lands would be USED
to form new states and not to enrich
enormously any Individual state.
"For long time Maryland raised
her voice alone; hut gradually the
other states were convinced of the
fairness and wisdom of her stand ant
the necessity of the program she
urged, If any lasting nation were t.
he the fruit of the Revolution. New
York, Virginia, Massachusetts ant
Connecticut generously coded theil
territorial claims to the nation.
"But Maryland's clear-sighted ant
effective course had achieved some
thing far greater han merely remov
ing the cause of future strife between
Jealous colonies; by her insistence OF
the creation of national domain sht
welded the most effective bond tina
could have been devised for lastin,
union. When peace came the thirteer
states found themselves joint owners
Of this great territory. and their com