"Soon after, the appointment of Mr. Eden to the government of Maryland, Sir William Draper arrived in that Province on a tour throughout the continent. He contemplated the origin of Baltimore and its rapid progress with astonishment, and when introduced by the Governor to the worthy founder, he elegantly accosted him by the appellation of the American Romulus."
These words were written many years later:
to quote them here is to take a long glance
ahead. When Dr. Stevenson came to Baltimore,
the clouds of war were lowering over
the colonies. Governor Sharpe of Maryland
exerted himself to the utmost to co-operate
with General Braddock in the conquest of the
Ohio for England, but fell out with the Lower
House of the Provincial Assembly. The war
was never popular in Maryland, although large
sums were finally appropriated for the defence
of the Province. When the news of Braddock's
defeat reached Baltimore, the alarm was intense.
Tradition relates that upon one occasion
such terrifying reports of the proximity of
the Indian allies of France were brought to
Baltimore that the women and children were
put aboard ships, while the masculine portion
of the inhabitants prepared to withstand the
attack of the savages. But the attack never
