Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-04

THE ..aaINsuLA TO BE UNITED l-uNIvERsAI
APPROVAL FROM ALL QUARTERS


APPROVAL FROM ALL ouABTERsl
The newspapers from all quarters are ex-
pressing a hearty desire to consolidate the
Peninsula in one State government. The
Salisbury (MarylanD Edstessa Shoresaadn
has long article In favor Of i, part Of which
we have already quoted. Itfarther sayns-
Virginia, we think. woula not object to
cede her eastern and isolated counties for
this purpose, and we believe the inhabitants
of Accomac and Northampton would see the
benefit of such an union, and would gladly
accede to the proposition. Aside from CIV
ing up their hdnored name--a name which
any one may be proud to bear, Virginian
they would have nothing to lose but much
would be gained by the change. AS tor
ourselves it ia lanentable fact that our
Western brethren have but little love for us,
and have ever beeh Indifferent to our inter
ests, yet they would doubtless strongly
object to our leaving them from motives of
self interest"
The Princess Anne True Marylander pub
fishes Mr.. Niehulsons Dover address, in fill,
and eommends the project warmly. The
maietia, advantages are manifest and great.
1t thinks that the Western Shore of Mary
land should not object, because Its interests
will not be injured in any sense. 1t says s.
"1'he question therefore recurs, to the
true and legitimate INQUIRY, will our iiiatcri-
al interests BE improved, and how? I'm
doubleday they will. The first crying want
of our Shore, was adequate and properly To-
Gated Railroads--this want is about to be
supplied. When the roads NOW 10 process
of construction are completed, 10 portion OF
America will be Better supplied. Oursecond.
and aln.ost equally pressing want, is that
! these roads be arranged on some proper sys-
tenn. AS things now stand this is almost i'm
possible, as they all run but a very few miles
before they reach the State line, and pass
under another jurisdiction. They are too
short to pay. Our roads are chiefly branch
roads, and the main stem lies in Delaware.
Let us get them systerhatised, and they will
| all pay well. The population of this PENN
sula, is homogeneous; its Agricultural pur-
suits identical; its commerce the same.
United in one State organization, these two
great interests could be developed together,
without any conflict with the great manufac.
turing, mining and tobacco interests of the
Western Shore while they, freed from us,
would develop with increased speed
The increased attention which would be
attracted to us, in efiecting the new organi.
cation, would draw down increased emigra-
ton, and accomplish for us the last great
thing we need, viz the occupation of our
surplus lands by an active, industrious and
intelligent population. Only let this be ac-
complished and we shall indeed become the
fruit garden of America, while the success
of the project would secure to our two
neighboring Virginia counties, the building
of the Railroad to Cherrystone, which is
their great necessity"
In addition to the newspapers already
quoted as favoring Peninsula State, we find
an excellent article in the Denton Cardiac
county, Union. 1t says-
"Nature evidently intended that the peo-
Pile Of this ri Dorado of America should be
governed by the same laws; should be
bound together by the same bond of afiec-
tion should be animated by single i'm
pulse, and have a common interest. We
seem to thwart the design of an all-wise Gre
ator when we parcel this fair and fertile re-
gion between three States, and we submit to
it only to our disadvantage and expense"
The linton, however, raises one objection
to the proposed consolidation, that being the
condition of our State laws. II proceeds to
! say
:" WHO supposes that the citizens of Eas-
tern Maryland are going TO unite their for
tunes with people who continue to use the
VIII piping post and the pilloly re,ics of a
barbaric age-whosc Legislature annuls the
sacred bonds of wcdlock with greater ra.
pidity than they can be formed and register.
ed-whose State is without thorough and
effective system of free public schools, and
whose statute books arc cursed with tarioas
laws closely allied ana in sympathy with q
pre-historic age? We in Maryland are al
least century in advance Of Delaware ii
these respects. 'Tis very true we have re-
lapsed from a most excellent free public
school system into one but little superior
10 that Of our neighbor, but that was don't
amidst the heat Of partizan Legislation ant
will be remedied at the next session of ou
Legislature. Our penal code is more in har
mony with that of the other States and o
the age In which we live. The marital rela
tions are seldom interlered with-only il
cases of the most brutal treatment or th,
grossest neglect. Who, then, supposes tina
we will abandon these for the pillory. th,
whipping post, = wese. eno >mperiect sys
I'd tampering with the holy ordinances O
matrimonyf To ask us to do so is to asl
us to relapse from Christianity to heather
ism; from light to darkness; from an ae
vanccd degree of civilization to the tortue
Of barbarism."
These objections are not, perhaps, yer
surprising, but they are urged, we thinl
with more earnestness than is necessar,
The frame of our laws is destined soon
undergo great changes and no doubt the
bad features will be removed. This, ther
! fore, will not stand in the way.
The Republican of this city also encou
: agesthe new movement in one of its cleare
: and1frmest articles. 1t thus sounds its wa
j whoop:-
"The consolidation of this Peninsula in
G one State, is attracting good deal of attic
ton, but we fear that little real progress W
c he made in the matter. The geographic
connection is such that every one will adm
" the propricty of the proposed consolidate
!. but the political connections are so comp
Gated that they cannot be easily set ast
:. We hope that the Legislatures Of the thr
II States will be appealed TO and the opinio
% of each fully ascertained. viii rot sol
r. gentlemen of enterprise, leisure and pub
spirit move in the matter at once and gi
| us tbn result of their action nj an early dat,