Excerpt from The Catholic and the Puritan Settler of Maryland: An Address Delivered on Invitation of the Maryland Legislature, in the Hall of the House of Delegates, March 5, 1894, at the Celebration of the Bi-Centennial of the Removal of the State Capital From St. Mary's to Annapolis

Ladies and Gentlemen:

It is most appropriate that the people of this immediate vicinity should publicly celebrate a day that chose this city above the fairest of her sisters, and exalted her to political headship. It is fitting that men selected for the honorable discharge of public duties should pause in the business of State to observe a day that rehearses the story of the first English colony governed by laws enacted in a provincial assembly. It is becoming that the citizens of a great commonwealth should commemorate an act which had its genesis in the resistance of a liberty-loving people to the paramount authority of an hereditary sovereign. Surrounded to-day by the progressive spirit of the western world, with its exhaustless material resources, its matchless achievements of thought, the appeal is made to the past, with all it has given, with all it gives, as a pledge and inspiration for the future.

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