. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... eemed to the people of Marylandthat this triumph of the popular party was tousher in a new war upon the Roman Catholicfaith, which was professed by a large major-ity of the colonists. Dreading a war ofreligion as the greatest of evils, they deter-mined to secure the colony from it, by pla-cing the freedom of conscience within theirlimits upon as secure a basis as possible. Indoing this they gave expression to the popularwill, and aimed to secure their future
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... eemed to the people of Marylandthat this triumph of the popular party was tousher in a new war upon the Roman Catholicfaith, which was professed by a large major-ity of the colonists. Dreading a war ofreligion as the greatest of evils, they deter-mined to secure the colony from it, by pla-cing the freedom of conscience within theirlimits upon as secure a basis as possible. Indoing this they gave expression to the popularwill, and aimed to secure their future the twenty-first of April, 1649, ^^^assembly of Maryland adopted the following il6 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. act: And, whereas, the enforcing of con-science in matters of religion hath frequentlyfallen out to be of dangerous co^nsequence inthose commonwealths where it has beenpracticed, and for the mor? c\ and peace- Christ, shall be anyways troubled, molested,or discountenanced for his or her religion, orin the free exercise thereof, or be compelledto the belief or practice of any other religionagainst their OLIVER CROMWELL. able government of this province, and thebetter to preserve mutual love and amityamong the inhabitants, no person within this This statute, noble as it was, applied onlyto Christians. It was provided that What-soever person shall blaspheme God, or shall province, professing to beli^^e in Jesus [ deny or reproach the Holy Trinity, or any THE COLONIZATrON OF MARYLAND. 117 of the three persons thereof, shall be pun-ished with death, Maryland had taken agreat stride in advance in making her soil asanctuary for Christians of all beliefs, but shehad not yet accorded to her people a tolera-tion equal to that of Rhode Island, whichcolony, in 1647, granted liberty to all•opinions, infidel as well as Christian. Cromwells Blunt Order. During the existence of the common-wealth, the colony was troubled with anunsettled government. It submitted
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