ain. "You shall take
care that the members of the Assembly be elected only by freeholders,
as being more agreeable to the custom of England." Nor is the grant
to Culpeper and Arlington revoked. Nor, wider and deeper, are the
Navigation Laws in any wise bettered. No more than before, no more
indeed than a century later, is there any conception that the child
exists no more for the parent than the parent for the child.

Sir William Berkeley's loyalty had in the end overshot itself. His zeal
fatigued the King, and in 1677 he was recalled to England. As Governor
of Virginia he had been long popular at first but in his old age
detested. He had great personal courage, fidelity, and generosity for
those things that ran with the current of a deep and narrow soul. He
passes from the New World stage, a marked and tragic figure. Behind him
his vengeances displeased even loyalist Virginia, willing on the whole
to let bygones be bygones among neighbors and kindred. It is said that;
when his ship went down the river, bonfires were lighted and cannon and
muskets fired for joy. And so beyond the eastward horizon fades the old
reactionary.

Herbert Jeffreys and then Sir Henry Chicheley follow Berkeley as
Governors of Virginia; they are succeeded by Lord Culpeper and he by
Lord Howard of Effingham. King Charles dies and James the Second rules
in England. Culpeper and Effingham play the Governor merely for what
they can get for themselves out of Virginia.* The price of tobacco goes
down, down. The crops are too large; the old poor remedies of letting
much acreage go unplanted, or destroying and burning where the measure
of production is exceeded, and of petitions to the King, are all
resorted to, but they procure little relief. Virginia cannot be called
prosperous. England hears that the people are still disaffected and
unquiet and England stolidly wonders why.

* In 1684 the Crown purchased from Culpeper all his rights
except in the Northern Neck.

During the reign of the second Charles, Maryland had suffered from
political unrest somewhat less than Virginia. The autocracy of Maryland
was more benevolent and more temperate than that of her southern
neighbor. The name of Calvert is a better symbol of wisdom than the name
of Berkeley. Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, dying in 1675, has
a fair niche in the temple of human enlightenment. His son Charles
succeeded, third Lord Baltimore and Lord Proprietary of Maryland.
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