The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-25
MARYLAND Must be Secured.

The great strategic movement for the South
in the present juncture, is the securing OF
MARYLAND to the Confederacy. The North
intend to risk everything else to secure MA
ryland We do not believe that the preser-
walton of the integrity OF the Union Is any
longer entertained by that section. They
had a lingering hope, until recently, from the
assurances given them by our submisslonists'
that the Border States might be retained.
But the uprising of the people throughout
these States against the procl.. of LIN
COLIN, has disabused them of that hallucina-
ton They now that even Maryland is
for secession but it is their intention TO de-
tach that State from the South, at all hazards,
and at any cost.
| the South besides. The only species of Navy
| that the South can provide within any
| sonable time, is one of steam vessels. The
engineers for managing the motive power of
| these exist in abundance along the Missis-
| sippi; but the sailors required for them can
only be obtained from Maryland. The ship
| builders and machinists of Baltimore are
! among the most skillful in the world, and are
| indispensable to complete the system ofSouth-
ern economy. The Chesapeake only be
made exclusively Southern, and brought nm
der exclusive Southern jurisdiction, by the
acquisition of Maryland. The securing of
| MARYLAND to the South makes the Chesapeake
| as exclusively a Southern bay rs Albemarle
| Sound. The great emporiums of Southern
| commerce would be located on the Chesa-
| peake after the separation and the waters of
| this noble bay would be enlivened by as vast
and diversified a commerce as now clusters
around the island of Manhattan. The loss
| of Maryland would introduce two jurisdic
tons, alien and social, into these waters, and
would produce infinite Earring and confusion.
| Smuggling with the one and the other of the
| Confederacies touching upon their borders
| would become a trade, with all of the social
| Generalization and fiscal arrangements at
tending this Illicit commerce.
The loss of Maryland would be equally I'M
| fortunate in a military and industrial point OF
view. The great Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road would be transferred to the North Bal
timore with its capital, enterprise. and me-
chanical skill and proficiency, would go over
to the enemy, our rival and a rural popula-
tion equal in social and individual worth to
any in Christendom, would be delivered over
to the uncongenial North. The Maryland sol
der has at no time been surpassed by any
other known in American history. The
Maryland line F" brought confidence and vic
tory wherever they appeared in the Revolu
ton. Lord BALTIMORB was a great and good
man, Of thorough cavalier blood, and the orr
ginal settlers of Maryland were altogether o.
that stamp. 1t is of the descendants of These
that the larger portion OF interior Mary
land 10 now peopled. They are worthy O
their ancestry. This was the heaven that lea
vened the lump In Baltimore the other day -
IL Is the spirit Of the old cavaliers burning 1,
the bosoms Of their sons that now rises up Il
resist the cohorts of LINCOLN. The loss 0
: such population to the South would be
| loss surprising calculation.
There IL a motive selfish to Virginia, which
though all unworthy of mention in thes
. heroic times, we will venture TO pnt down :
The securing OF Maryland throws the horde
uhe border as to military operations) beyon.
the confines Of Virginia. 1t opposes Mary
/. land, as q breastwork and shield for Virginia
{ against the assaults OF the foe. The value 9
Maryland TO Virginia In military strategy,
!, illustrated by what is now transporting a
. baltimore and Annapolis. But the fact {
. Maryland constituting such shield and bul
!. waSk. imposes upon Virginia and the Sout
the duty or supporting her with adeqnat
;: forces. The present attitude Of Marylan
. calls loudly upon Virginia to proceed againa
/ Washington city. While Maryland drive