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plenty to eat and lived very well from the start.

This was in the year 1634, just about the time Roger Williams went to
Rhode Island. Lord Baltimore did the same thing that Roger Williams did;
he gave the people religious liberty. Every Christian who came to
Maryland had the right to worship God in his own way. Roger Williams
went farther than this, for he gave the same right to Jews and all other
people, whether they were Christians or pagans.

It was not long before other people came to Maryland, and they began to
plant tobacco, as the people were doing in Virginia. Tobacco was a good
crop to raise, for it could be sold for a high price in England, so that
the Maryland planters did very well, and many of them grew rich. But
religious liberty did not last there very long, and the Catholics were
not much better off than they had been in England. All the poor people
who came with Lord Baltimore were Protestants. Only the rich ones were
Catholics. Many other Protestants soon came, some of them being Puritans
from New England, who did not know what religious liberty meant.

These people said that the Catholics should not have the right to
worship in their own churches, even in Maryland, and they went so far
that they tried to take from Lord Baltimore the lands which the king had
given him. There was much fighting between the Catholics and the
Protestants. Now one party got the best of it, and now the other. In
the end the province was taken from Lord Baltimore's son; and when a new
king, named King William, came to the throne, he said that Maryland was
his property, and that the Catholics should not have a church of their
own or worship in their own way in that province. Do you not think this
was very cruel and unjust? It seems so to me. It did not seem right,
after Lord Baltimore had given religious liberty to all men, for others
to come and take it away. But the custom in those days was that all men
must be made to think the same way, or be punished if they didn't. This
seems queer now-a-days, when every man has the right to think as he
pleases.

In time there was born a Lord Baltimore who became a Protestant, and the
province was given back to him. It grew rich and full of people, and
large towns were built. One of these was named Baltimore, after Lord
Baltimore, and is now a great city. And Washington, the capital of the
United States, stands on land that was once part of Maryland. But St.
Mary's, the first tow