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several valuable fragments, with two or three good skeletons,
there is nothing, which deserves the name, in the fullest,
truest and most satisfactory sense, of a history of the Coloni-
zation of Maryland. The little, also, which has been done
in the field of strictly original illustration, either by the
State Government or by our Historical Society, is really so
trifling as hardly to be worthy of a mention; many a son of
the State is made to blush when he reflects upon so sad a de-
cay of the historical instinct, in all classes of society; and
so far has the taste for history declined, that the habit often
prevails, of regarding our early History in the light of a
branch, merely, of Archseology. But our countryman,
Geo. Peabody, whose large heart so warmly throbs in
unison with the great popular movements and active en-
terprises of the present age, did, nevertheless, but the other
day make the most liberal provision for illustrating the his-
tory even of extinct tribes and nations of North American In-
dians; and there remains, it is respectfully and earnest sub-
mitted, a much higher obligation, on the part of Maryland-
ers, to provide the means for a proper illustration of the his-
tory of their own ancestors. A State can never be really
prosperous without a warm and loving sympathy for the Past.
No State can be properly civilized, which has lost any of her
noble traditions. No State, indeed, can be truly great which
is not inspired with her proudest and best historic recollec-
tions—which has never yet been baptized in the living font
of her own real History.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. L. L. DAVIS.
Baltimore, May 21, 1867.
Which was read, and,
On motion of Mr. Ritchie,
Ordered to be printed, and referred to the Committee upon
the Legislative Department.
Mr. Nicolai submitted the following order :
Ordered, That the Comptroller of Baltimore city report to
this Conventionihe amount of fees paid by him for removed
cases to Baltimore county, and to whom paid, for the years
1865 and 1866,
Which was adopted.
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the ord-
er of the day," being the Report of the Committee upon the
Declaration of Rights.
The question recurred upon the following amendment
to the 15th Article, submitted by Mr. Devries, viz.:
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