Middletown transcript., 1868-09-19
The Unnatural Geographical Division OF
this Peninsula.

Comet, we extract the following reference
to the unnatural division of the Peninsula
lying between the Delaware and Chesa-
peake Bays. The subject is one that has
often presented itself to the consideration
of the people inhabiting this territory, and
some years ago there was some legislation
in the Legislatures of the respective States
composing the Peninsula, looking to the
combination of the several parts into one
State, but it ultimately failed of consum-
nation. The geographical division is an
unnatural one, and ought never to have
been made The entire territory, from
the Potomac to the Delaware, belonged to
Lord Baltimore, and only the cupidity of
VIM Penn, and his successful intrigues
at Court, succeeded in effecting a chan &C.
If these unnatural and inconvenient geo.
graphical lines ever should be removed,
and new name sought out for the new
State, We enter our protest against the one
suggested by the Reverend gentleman
allowed mentioned. That name embraces
the first syllables of the three States now
joint owners of this territory, and is as ua-
natural as the geographical division which
the gentleman so justly complains of. 1t
would be more expressive, to call the new
State i" Peninsula, or to extend the pres
ent name of this State over the whole ter
ritory. Perhaps this would be better
than the selection of new name, because
Delaware being one of the original hir
teen, it would never do to oblterate her
name from the map of States.
.In travelling over this Peninsula, and
in studying its geography, the homogene-
BUSINESS of its products, soil, climate, and
people; its division, by State lines, ap-
pears not only arbitrary, but "nnat"rat.
Nature has her laws, and they should be
respected. Let any intelligent man sit
down with the worlds map before him,
and he cannot fail to see how the political
divisions of the earth are fixed by nature.
The Pyrenees form the boundary line
between France and Spain. The Scandi-
navian chain separates Norway and Swe-
den, AS naturally as if it were the single
purpose of their erection. The Alps wall
in little Switzerland. The Rhine, the
Danube, the Baltic, the many rivers, and
seas with which the map of the world is
interspersed, are all the lines drawn by
nature dividing the earth into various and
distinct nationalities The lines of nature
separting this Peninsula from the rest of
the country are so well defined, that its
present division by State lines is unn,tur-
al. The broad and beautiful Delaware
and Chesapeake Bays form natural line
between US, New Jersey and the Western
Shore of Maryland, while the Atlantic
ocean completes our insulation by separa-
ting us from 'tall the world and the rest
of mankind" Were | invested with SUI
preme power I would consolidate our tri-
partite Peninsula into one State, and COM
pounding the authorizations by which it is
known, would name it Del-mar-vir; be-
ing only citizen and not an autocrat, |
can only raise a feeble voice, and give a
single vote for u Peninsular State"
DECLINE IN THE Price OF LAND.-From
the same letter, mentioned above, we
take the following allusion to decline in
the price of land, which is attributed to
the total failure of the peach crop this
year. We can hardly suppose that the
failure of the peach crop has depressed the
price of real estate to the extent indicated
1t may have .occasioned some distrus
among the timid experimenters or adven
turers; but why should the failure of fruit
crop depress the price of land any more
than the occasional failure of the grail
crop We should think that the stringen
, cy in monetary affairs was the cause o
!. these farms not meeting with ready pur
: ehasers, rather than the failure of the peacl
crop.
:, "The total failure of the peach crop thi
year, has to some extent depressed the rea
y estate business. | was informed by rea
!, estate agent at Greensborough, that land
v were now offering there at greatly reduce
prices. A number of farms have been re
Gently offered at public sale, without find
ing purchaser This depression, I be
lieve, is only temporary. The emigratio
of Northerncrs, which seems checked fo
y the present, will soon be renewed, for tn
s. safest and most profitable investment {
N money that can be made ia in the lands
ts Delaware and Maryland look hopeful
" upon the future Capital and populatio
le are our desiderata We shall have them
lie it is only question of time, then lands no
is lying in idleness shall blossom as til
40 rose" and the Peninsula shall be the sy
=. nopym for all that is rich, and beautiful
and profitable"
IL The Republicans are jubilant over IL
fact that they have not been beaten in the
strongholds of Vermont and Maine. The