The national Republican., 1861-01-22
IS MARYLAND AN APPANAGE OF
VIRGINIAP


discovered that she must necessarily adopt the
deas and follow the lead, of her neighbor on
the sunny side of the Potomac2
Mr.. Senator Kennedy, who happens to be
the relative of Senator Hunter, and who never
fails to take kindly to all the ideas Of his dis.
tinguisbed Virginia family connection, can see
nothing in this wide world but the Old Domin.
ion, and in his late letter to his constituents
he puts his stress upon this idea of tolloping
Virginia.
He says:
"If the alternative should be presented for
her consideration, there would be almost a
unanimous answer from the Alleghanies to the
Atlantic, and that answer would be-Maryland
speaking across the Potomac to her elder sis.
ter Virginia. Whittier thou goest, will go
where thou lodgest, will lodgc and thy peo.
pie shall be my peoplel' Virginia holds the
entrance to the Chesapeake Bay; Baltimore is
the market town for half Virginia; our great
railroad runs for some three hundred miles
through her territory, transporting to and from
Baltimore Oper nine hundred and forty thou.
sand tons of freight, valued at nearly thirty sir
millions Of dollars! Do not these views in.
dicate, beyond all doubt, what must be the
brought to the dreadful consideration or neces.
sty OF forming new alliances under the recon.
struction of another Government"
This same idea of tollowing Virginia, is the
keynote of the proceedings of disunion meet.
ing at Frederick on the 10th.
The address adopted says that in no erent
piH they be separated from Virginia." and
again that they "piU take their position by The
side Of Jlryinia."
The resolutions declare that geographical
necessities link as in perpetual amity and
community Of interest wiM the South, and Es-
PECIALLY VIRGINIA
And the Frederick Citizen newspaper, speak.
ing for the men concerned in this meeting, an.
nounces that they will "resist any attempt TO
tear Maryland from the embrace of old Tir.
ginia."
The word "embrace" is hardly appropriate
in the domain of business and politics. 1t be.
longs to the domain Of love. But if we 90
there for illustrations at all, it should be re-
membered that it is not the embraces of the
old, but of the young and vigorous, which are
preferred. Who knows but that may be so in
commerce and Government? Was it not to
embrace the young West, that Maryland
built the Ohio railroad, and will she sever
that long sought connection, reached after so
many sacrifices, in order to get back to the
embraces of old Virginia?
According to Mr.. Kennedy's view, however,
Maryland is so completely encrcled by Vir.
ginia, and so cut off east and west by Virginia,
as to have no option but to go with her. Vir-
ginia commands both the capes of the Chesa.
peake bay, SO that no Maryland vessel can
reach the ocean without the suherance of Vir.
gina and in the other direction, the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad runs for three hundred miles
through the territory Of Virginia. so that west
as well as east, the outlets of MARYLAND are
commanded by her more powerful neighbor.
The fallacy, in all this, is the baseless as.
sumption that divisions Of the Union must ne.
cessariy be according to the State lines. We
do not admit, or believe, that any division is
imminent anywhere, and still less do we admit
or believe that Vir ryinia will follow the crazy
lead of the Gulf pei, clans. But if both things
happen, and Maryland remains true to the
Union, as all the signs indicate, does anybody
doubt that her interests will be protected at all
points, before the Union assent to the with
drawal of Virginia?
Here is Maryland investment of twenty OF
thirty millions, in a railroad to the Ohio, all o
it within the United States when built. Wha
is called the Parkersburg branch, costing five
millions, nearly all furnished by Maryland, is
wholly within Virginia. Does anybody believe
that the Union will permit this vast property tc
be denationalized, and, in one sense, carried
out Of the country, by the withdrawal of Vir
ginia, and without the assent of MARYLAND ?
Was not this great work executed upon the
faith of Virginia's perpetual allegiance to the
Union, and does anybody doubt, that in behalf
that this faith be kept, to the extent of covering
all the interests Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
In fine, if Virginia goes out of the Union
and Maryland remains in it, division by State
lines will not be permitted, but Virginia will bt
compelled to give up SO much of her territory
as will give to Maryland the secure enjoyment
Of her railroad approaches to the Ohio river
And such a cesson of territory will be facli
tated by the known inclination Of the popula
ton which inhabits it.
And so with the capes of the Chesapeake, i
the security of Maryland requires the acquisi
ton of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, it will b,
demanded and enforced. The two counties
Accomac and Northampton, which constitute
that shore, are said to be loyal, although the
representative Mr.. Garnett, who is nephew
Of Senator Hunter, is a disunonst.
CoERcIoN.-Hon. j. G. Dickerson, a leading