Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-05-10
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TIE Reaction in Maryland.

UxDER WHICH KING? is the question whic,
the current of events forces upon the State of
Maryland, and to which she is reqnired to
give AN explicit answer. 1t is question not
to be answered in passion nor from caprice
II demands the coolest dclibcratiDn, the sound
est Judgment, and the wiscst forecast, but, at
the seHIc time, the irmest response. Maryland
calle every true son Of hers TO give ready an
swer, remembering, "a he does 80, that to' hiiii
is committed some portion Of her interest " hch
he is to promote, and some portion Of her honor
which he is jrillously TO gunrt.
1t is not question Of election between two
Governments, equally entiIlcd TO our res,5ect,
with neither Of which we are connected; ana
beiwccen which we are Indifferent. II IL were
so, the question so pcrsistenily s4.tF 80 disih--
genuously put, Will yos go With t1le Yorth,
or will You 60 with tic s5J1shF' might be
proper and pertinent.
But it is not sn. On tke' ono hand is otR
COUNTRY, rich in priceless s4trihries of the past
which arc ours G,c,sKp gkpy are our country's;
rich ir the vast extent and variety Of her pres
ent resources which enrich us as a part OF our
country; aud rich (oh how rich, but for the
present cloud of siianse) in the COLDER Sso1H-
iscs of the futHFe, which arc ottrs because the
country iS OuFs. On the other bunf is leRguc
Of States without history, With 30 eiensenIs
Of indepciAlsnt crspiFei. ard afotA14 whose
future the thickest darkness hangs. Or the
one hand is the flag round which cluster so
many patriotic rccoectons, und which has
waved above the br We in so many hard fought
battles5 the Constitution rlrSch 50 many of us
have sworn to sustainf the laws which we have
| aided 10 enact; the alliances which we have
contracted, and the commercial treaties which
we have Reyotiat'f whrp we commanded res
pect as u first-cIseSs power among the nations
Of the earth On the other hand are those
who trail that flag in the dust, abjure that con-
stitution aud rrpu3ists the osths to sustain Il
| which they have registered in heaven. defy the
laws which they have helped to enact, and
must contract alliances as best they can when
recognized sixth rate power, FlNSc dis
| cortlant Ptsrts are ccInented only by the whim
of demagog1ies-.
+ But one thought iii nihny mindsr over rides
all other considerations: "Virgiuia has sccedetl
and Of course Maryland'must." Why "must?'
I WRn did Maryland become an infant or cap
I tive TO be dray9e,lat ViFginia's chariot wheels?
Virginia is Il noble State-all honor TO- her :;
but she has done things before to-day in which
Maryland could no: follow her. The old Do
minien has favu from the first III ranir 10 the
seventh in our company of States, and the
counsels which have led her that downward
road are not the safest guide that VIC could
choose for Maryland.
/ Nor does it by any means follow that what
is wisest or best or most honorable for her is
so for US. We are on different sides of great
navigable river. No natural boundary sepa-
rates US from the great North. No other
State is interposed between us and them. We
cannot escape the position Of being all that
separates them from their Capital, and only a
miracle like that which opened the Red Sea
for Israel can save Maryland from becoming
one great graveyard, il the assumes TO bcar
the brunt Of the battles Of Secession