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PA'PisT, n., a nickname given to one who acknowledges the spiritual supremacy of the Pope. F. papiste. L. p ista, om papa, pope or ther.
1. was the peculiar rtune of the United States that they were severally colonized by men, in origin, religious ith, and purposes, as various as the climes which are included within their limits. Be re Vir­ ginia could complete its settlements, and con rm its claims to jurisdiction over the country north of the Potomac, a new government was erected, on a un­ dation as extraordinary as its results were benevolent.
2. Sir George Calvert had early become interested in colonial establishments in America. A native of Yorkshire, educated at Ox rd, with a mind en­ larged by extensive travel, on his entrance into li be iended by Sir Robert Cecil, advanced to the hon­ ours of knighthood, and at length employed as one of the two secretaries of state, he not only secured the consideration of his patron and sovereign but the good opinion of the world; and his capacity r business, his industry, and his delity are acknowl­ edged by all historians.
3. In an age when religious controversy still con­ tinued to be active, and when the increasing divis­ ions among Protestants were spreading a general alarm, his mind sought relief om controversy in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church; and pre rring the avowal of his opinions to the emoluments of o ce, he resigned his place and openly pro ssed his conversion. King James ,vas never bitter against the Catholics who respected his pretensions as a monarch. Calvert retained his place in the prh-y
council, and was admitted to the dignity of an Irish peerage, by the title of Baron Baltimore.
4. He had, om early li , shared in the general