A popular history of the United States - from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states; preceded by a sketch of the (14781328144)
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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant
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t was answered by the President thatclergy could not be allowed in his crime, and if it might, yet now it Avas demanded too lateafter judgment. Assembly Proceedings, etc. 2 Report of the Lords Commissioners, etc., quoted by Hazard, Collections, i. p. 130;by Bozman, ii., note xi., p. 584 ; by MacSherry, p. 46, and elsewhere, with slight variations.Comments by Bozman, ii. 587. 1642-44.) TROUBLE AVITH THE INDIANS. 509 and occasionally sent out to make retaliation ; but the Assembly ofJuly, in the year just named, — there had been others in 1640,1641, and March, 1642, but their acts were of little mo- sug^tdis-ment, — was the first which appeared actually to recognize J^Jm in!a state of warfare as existing; and in September, the ^^^^•governor formally proclaimed that the Susquihanowes, Wicomesesand Nanticoque Indians are enemies of this province, and as suchare to be reputed and proceeded against by all persons. Eventhen the fighting seems to have differed little from the occasional
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Indian Attack on an Outlying Plantation. attacks and expeditions ofthe years before, thoughthey were called, an In-dian war. They contin-ued from this time until1644, when binding trea-ties were made with thehostile tribes. All that thecolonists had suffered from this cause, however, was rather the annoy-ance and danger inevitable anywhere in the neighborhood of savages,rather than such a devastating and terrible calamity as was under-stood under the name of an Indian war in some of the other colonies.Even at the height of the hostile feeling, no such universal meas-ures of defence or of retaliation were necessary, as had been calledfor in the early days of Virginia, Massachusetts, and New Netherland.The first really serious shock to the tranquillity of Maryland camefrom within the State itself. The earnest, yet unusually tolerant Ro-man Catholics, under whose leadership the settlement had been begun,no longer ruled, when it was a few years old, over an harmonious 510 MARYLAND UNDER L