A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634, to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line; the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present timeFor the use of schools . ietary, andthe liberality of the early settlers, that it is difficult to 178 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. [1774. account for its existence. To all Christians, equal privil
A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634, to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line; the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present timeFor the use of schools . ietary, andthe liberality of the early settlers, that it is difficult to 178 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. [1774. account for its existence. To all Christians, equal privileges were extended: and this, measured by thesentiments of that age, is no slight glory. In the revolutionof 89, this toleration was overthrown, as it had been sus-pended during the days of the commonwealth, but its gra-dual extension to all dissenters from the established church,as the political excitement of that period passed away,prepared the people for the more enlarged equality whichdawned like a brilliant morn upon the opening revolutionof 1776. Still however, the Jew remained enthralled untila much later period.* Thus stood the colony, in this crisis, possessing thegerms of great resources, agricultural, commercial and ma-nufacturing, with a people liberalized in their sentiments,proud of the liberties which they had acquired, prepared toextend them, and ready to maintain them with their blood. • CHAPTER YIII. THE REVOLUTION. 1774 — 1776. A,S with one accord, the patriots of Maryland, at the callof the convention, hastened to bury all private animosities,all local differences, all religious disputes, all memory ofpast persecution; to wash out all invidious distinctions, toequalize all rights, and in the name of God, their countryand posterity, to unite in defence of the common rights andliberties.* The old spirit of sectarian dissension, whichhad brought so much evil upon the province, was absorbedin the struggle for political rights, in which all were alik
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