Maryland has been the cradle of the Roman Catholic Church in America, as well as of the Methodist and the Presbyterian.

If Maryland and Virginia had been the authorized interpreters of the constitution for the Union, these acts of cession could hardly have been magnified more than they were by Messrs. Garland and Wise in the last Congress.

Maryland is only a Colony, you know.

Of these, fourNew York, New Jersey, North and South Carolinabecame eventually provincial colonies, and Maryland was at one time a proprietary.

" Maryland was thus almost an independent state.