Governor Tom Johnson

In a storied burial ground in Fredderick, "in his narrow bed," sleeps one whose name never fails to stir the heart of the old Marylander with lively emotiona of admiration and affection - Governor Tom Johnson, that audacious and gtnbborn patriot of whom John Adama said that he was one of fonr citizens of Maryland and Virginia "without whom there wonld have been no Revolution," althongh, in affected scorn of him, a British offlcer, writing to his people at home, had assnred them, "There is no need to be alarmed by all this noise in the colonies, which is mainly made by a boy named Tom Johnson." "That pestilent rebel" of the British ■war office was the trusty, loving friend of Washington, whom he nominated to be commander in chief of all the armies of the United colonies ; member of the first congress and of the ■convention ■which adopted the constitntion of the United States ; flrst governor of Maryland, and an assooiate jnstice of the supreme conrt, and he was twioe urged to accept the portfolio of secretary of state. He waa in bis day tbe first citizen of Maryland, and in all the colonies the JleTolntion displped no wiser. stronger, srveeter character than lils vho joined the fortitnde cf the warrior ■with the foresight of the statesman in the temperament of an eager, dauntless