. A day in historic and beautiful Annapolis. e namesakes of great streets inLondon that were fashionable in Queen Annes time, and Prince George Street was named for her husband. A merry-group of girls, who had come down for the Academy Hop,dressed in the latest modern styles, passed down the street withtheir midshipmen escorts, and made us realize that we werenow Americans, and subject to no one, but if George Thirdhad been as kind to us as Queen Anne we might not havelonged for freedom and independence at all. THE STATE HOUSE. The State House, with its wliite dome, is to be seen fromevery par
. A day in historic and beautiful Annapolis. e namesakes of great streets inLondon that were fashionable in Queen Annes time, and Prince George Street was named for her husband. A merry-group of girls, who had come down for the Academy Hop,dressed in the latest modern styles, passed down the street withtheir midshipmen escorts, and made us realize that we werenow Americans, and subject to no one, but if George Thirdhad been as kind to us as Queen Anne we might not havelonged for freedom and independence at all. THE STATE HOUSE. The State House, with its wliite dome, is to be seen fromevery part of Annapolis, and we chose the steps that lead intothe grounds nearest the De Kalb statue, and so avoided thelong, steep steps at the front and back of it. Baron De Kalbwas a gallant Frenchman, who came over to help us during theRevolutionary War. He was mortally wounded at Camden,S. C, in 1780, and one hundred years later, 1883, the AmericanCongress erected this statute of him in Annapolis, designed byEphraim Keyser, a Maryland Entering the beautiful white marble corridor of the StateHouse, the portraits of the four signers of the Declaration ofIndependence for Maryland (each of the thirteen States hadfour signers) hung high on the walls, William Paca, Sam-uel Chase, Thomas Stone, and Charles Carroll, of old Senate Chamber opened on the right, and when weentered it, we were in the most historic room in the country,for here, December 23, 1783, George Washington requestedCongress, at that time assembled in Annapolis, to allow himto surrender his sword, and retire to private life. His greattask was accomplished, and America was free from the oppres-sions of King George Third, and all the States united underone Republic. The President of the Senate sat in the samechair that now stands on the raised platform at the end of theroom, and about the fine old mahogany desk were seated themembers of Congress on that eventful day, where we now stop-ped to enter
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