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Sioussat's The English Statutes in Maryland, 1903
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CHAPTER IV.
THE ARGUMENTS IN THE DEBATE OF 1722-1732.
If the sources for tlic eighteenth century history of Mary-
land, or even that part of them found in the Journals of the
Assembly, were accessible in printed form, this chapter could
be materially abbreviated. But the documents which illustrate
the arguments pro and con in the controversy just outlined
exist almost exclusively in manuscripts and, as these argu-
ments are the life of the dry narrative that constitutes the
last chapter, we must endeavor at this point briefly to sum up
several of the more important.
We shall consider, then, first, a few reports and addresses
which appear in the records of the Assembly; second, to
show its relation to these, the pamphlet by Daniel Dulany ;
and third, the notes upon the controversy found in the writ-
ings of one of the ministers of the Established Church in the
colony of Maryland.
First among the documents which present the arguments
of the country party come the Resolutions of 1722. These we
have. already outlined. The most important are those of the
second group, which present a clear statement of the claim
that the colonists had in the past enjoyed the extension of the
general English statutes—that is, those not restrained by
words of local limitation: and the paragraph 10 which special
notice should be given is the one which emphasizes the idea
that the Province was not a conquered country even as
against the Indians; while, if it were the English inhabit-
ants would be the conquerors, not the conquered.' But
part of the resolutions of 1722 provide for their perpetuation;
they have a further history that will be discussed hereafter.
In reply to this, we have 'the statement of the Proprietor,
1 Above, pp. 32-33. For the resolutions in full. see Appendix I.

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