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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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marked by conciliation and humanity. To foster industry,to promote union, to cherish religious peace,****** these were the honest pur-poses of Lord Baltimore during his longsupremacy. * Arrival of Immigrants. Yet the colony continued to prosper.Emigrants came to it from almost everycountry of western Europe, and even fromSweden and Finland. The only personswho had cause for complaint in Marylandwere the Quakers, who were treated with * History of the United States.ii., p. 235. By George Bancroft, 1 tiS SETILEMENT OF AMERICA. considerable harshness for their refusal toperform military duty; but no effort wasmade to interfere with the exercise of theirreligion. In 1662, Charles Calvert, the son and heirof Lord Baltimore, came to reside in the thousand dollars. By numerous acts ofcompromise between Lord Baltimore and theassembly the question of taxation was ad.justed upon a satisfactory basis. The peopleassumed the expense of the provincial gov-ernment, and agreed to the imposition of an
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WILLIAM III. colony. Money was coined at a colonialmint, a tonnage duty was imposed upon allvessels trading with the colony, and a statehouse was built in 1674, at a cost of fortythousand pounds of tobacco, or about five export duty of two shillings per hogsheadupon all the tobacco sent out of the colony.One-half of this duty was appropriated tothe support of the government, and the re-m?inder was assigned unconditionally to the THE COLONIZATION OF MARYLAND. 9 uses of Lord Baltimore, as an act of grati-tude for his care of the colony. On the thirtieth of November, 1675, CecilCalvert, second Lord Baltimore, died. Hehad been for fourteen years the earnest anddevoted friend, as well as the generous lordof the province, and had lived long enoughto enjoy the gratitude with which the colonysought to repay his judicious care. Hismemory is perpetuated by the chief city ofMaryland, which bears his name, and whichis already the largest city on the Atlanticoast, south of the Susequehanna, and th

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