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| MARYLAND. |
| THE charter granted by
King Charles I, to Sir George
Calvert, the first Lord
Baltimore, was issued to his son,
Cecilius, who sent his brother
Leonard Calvert to colonize the
country. Fully 200 gentlemen and
their servants sailed in 1633,
and settled at St. Mary's.
Religious freedom was then almost
unknown in the world, and
although there were stringent
laws for banishing or severely
punishing vagabonds called
"Quakers," persons
denying the doctrines of the
trinity, etc., yet many of
different denominations sought
and found in Maryland a safe
refuge from more rigorous
enactments elsewhere. The long
boundary dispute between the
Baltimores and the Penns was
settled when the English
surveyors, Mason and Dixon, in
1763-67, ran a line 258 miles
westward from the Delaware,
marked with stone mile-posts, and
at every five miles bearing the
sculptured arms of Maryland and
Pennsylvania. Human slavery never
passed north of this line. |
| The
State suffered greatly during the
war of 1812, when Admiral
Cockburn sailed up and down
Chesapeake Bay with a powerful
British fleet and plundered and
burnt many towns. The first
telegraph was erected from
Baltimore to Washington, D.C., in
1844. Although a slave State,
Maryland refused to join the
other Seceding States in 1861.
Secessionists, however, made a
bold but unsuccessful attack on
the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry,
while marching through Baltimore,
on the way to the rescue of the
National Capital. This caused the
first bloodshed in the Civil War. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
George
Fox, the First Quaker, Preaching
in Maryland; The
British Pillaging Havre-de-Grace,
1813; Landing of
Leonard Calvert with the First
Emigrants, 1634. |
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