The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-21
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Reasons why Maryland Should
Adopt Emancipation.

Reasons why Maryland Should
Adopt Emancipation.
The people Of Maryland should not
fail to place proper estimate spon Inc
responsible position they At present occo
Ply towards the great conflict, aud esPe-
cially should they consider that upon
them devolves the initiation OF measures
such as will result in protecting the Capt.
tai of the nation ia sll time 70 come from
seeming in any way . desirable acquisi-
ton to the reyolutionists Of the South.
All know, doubtless, even now, that Ma
ryland has already fallen out of the good
graces OF the traitors at Richmond large
ly-that no more doleful ditties like "My
Maryland" find anybody there to chant
them now. 1t was capital fault, in the
outset, that Maryland refused to "follow
Virginia J" the grievance has since been
aggravated thousand fold in that she
proposes to cut loose finally from that
''socal SYSTEM" that peculiar instltu-
ton" which The Southern leaders vainly
supposed would make the Border States
blindly trail along after them in the night
of blood and desola,ion they have brought
upon the lAnd. ~ - III
In considering the relative position we
occupy towards the Government and to-
wards our sister States. we must see that
what we may do, as commonwealth, is OF
vastly more import than what others in-
volved in the struggle elsewhere may do.
1t is clearly Of importance-as stated by
the Presideut-that all the Border States
should adopt the policy of Emancipation /;
that by such course the hopes of the
Southern leaders Of aid and sympathy
from them should finally be struck down.
Blu. when we remember that the Capital
of the nation is on our soil-that Eman-
cipation adopted by us frees it forever,
in the eyes of all nations, from what to
the civilized world has been more or less
an offence-our action is immeasurably
enhanced in importance, the occasion
calling for the uttermost discretion
coupled with the most vigorous endea
vors not to disappoint universal expecsa
ton.
1t is true that the National Capital has
lost its value in the eyes of the Rebe
leaders as a place to retain. Striving in
the first instance to acquire it by an arm
ed advance. and failing, their greatest de-
sire, as since expressed by themselves, ap.
pears to be for its entire destruction, the
purpose having been entertained, nc
doubt, of concentrating upon other cities
further South any hopes entertained Of
building up places of business or great
national metropolis.
But whatever views and feeling the
rebels entertain, the fact is plain thai
the nation at large will never abandon
the present Capital. If it was never q
favorite with the people in the past. the
stirring scenes witnessed around it, the
mighty events with which it is connected
have at last concentrated upon it intense
interest, deeper feelings of regard, unit
to give it up from any pretext would al
most seem sacrilege, as abandoning t
oblivion aud ruin almost every thing thai
has signalized patriotism in dealing with
the rebellion.
But there are material reasons-essen.
TALLY so considered-which call upon oul
citizens to put forth all their strength "a
accomplish Emancipation. The Southern
States having as much"precipitated" this
immediate necessity upon US as they die
the conflict they sought. Let US accept
the issue involved let us show ourselves
equal to our destiny, and out of THU
Interchangeable this flower
safety We have shown, heretofore
that in any course which goes of pro
tlct and subserve our own interests as q
State the traitors South have nothing te
do, They scoffed at the idea of consul
ting with us they even proposed to Take
such action as should result IN running
stare property here. unless we would joir
them to overthrow the Federal Govern
ment and remembering all this. AMI
fairly driven to bay by their action, nov
is the time to manifest our independents.
of such, to take the IL easures such as viii
insure our own prosperity and safety ii
all time TO come. We have alluded t.
the fact that we have materiul interests
to subserve in all this. On this point LEI
JUS hear the Hon. Robert Walker:
"The position Of Maryland npon tn,
Chesapeake, the Potomac, the Susque
hama and Atlantic. is most commanding
She surrounds the Capital. 1t was he
own noble donation, and she is its natura
guardian and sentinel Her waters, cut
ting the Blue Ridge Mountains aud tn,
Allegheny, flow into the Atlantic an,
Missippi, thus making her an Eastern an,
Western State. Throughout all he
borders not citizen would lose any,bin,
by the change proposed, but all would b
enriched. Take down the barriers o
slavery and new and unprecedented cur
rent of population and ca pital would flov
into the State. Property would rise i'm
mensely in value, the price of her land
would soon reach those Of PENNSYLVANIA
new towns and cities would spring int,
life; Cumberland would equal the grea
manufacturing sites of the North, and tn,
railroad TO Patsburg would soon be com
pleted. Baltimore would fulfill he-
mighty destiny, and the present canal VI
the Susquebanna. easily enlarged so as t.
equal the grand work of New York, woulc