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The Protestants now held the best hand, and outvoted the Catholics, so
up to 1691 there was a never-dying fight between the two, which must
have been entertaining to the unregenerate outsider who was taxed to pay
for a double set of legislators. This fight between the Catholics and
Protestants shows that intolerance is not confined to a monarchy.
In 1715 the fourth Lord Baltimore recovered the government by the aid of
the police, and religious toleration was restored. Maryland remained
under this system of government until the Revolution, which will be
referred to later on in the most thrilling set of original pictures and
word-paintings that the reader has ever met with.
* * * * *
QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.
_Q._ Who was William Penn?
_A._ He founded Pennsylvania.
_Q._ Was he a great fighter?
_A._ No. He was a peaceable man, and did not believe in killing men
or fighting.
_Q._ Would he have fought for a purse of forty thousand dollars?
_A._ No. He could do better buying coal lands of the Indians.
_Q._ What is religious freedom?
_A._ It is the art of giving intolerance a little more room.
_Q._ Who was Lord Baltimore?
_A._ See foregoing chapter.
_Q._ What do you understand by rebellion?
_A._ It is an unsuccessful attempt by armed subjects to overcome
the parent government.
_Q._ Is it right or wrong?
_A._ I do not know, but will go and inquire.
CHAPTER X.
THE EARLY ARISTOCRACY.
Lord Clarendon and several other noblemen in 1663 obtained from Charles
II. a grant of lands lying south of Virginia which they called Carolina
in honor of the king, whose name was not really Carolina. Possibly that
was his middle name, however, or his name in Latin.
The Albemarle Colony was first on the ground. Then there was a Carteret
Colony in 1670. They "removed the ancient groves covered with yellow
jessamine" on the Ashley, and began to build on the present site of
Charleston.
The historian remarks that the growth of this Colony was rapid from the
first. The Dutch, dissatisfied with the way matters were conducted in
New York, and worn out when shopping by the ennui and impudence of the
salesladies, came to Charleston in large numbers, and the Huguenots in
Charleston found a hearty Southern welcome, and did their trading there
altogether.
We now pass on to speak of the Grand Model which was set up as a
five-cent aristocracy by Lord Shaftesbury and the great philosopher
John Locke. The canebrakes and swamps of the wild and snake-infested
jungles of the wilderness were to be divided into vast estates, over
which were proprietors with hereditary titles and outing flannels.
This scheme recognized no rights of self-government whatever, and denied
the very freedom which the people came there in search of. So there were
murmurings among those people who had not brought their finger-bowls and
equerries with them.
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