Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-07
CLOSER INTIMACY REQUIRED BEFORE
UNION CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.

There is much of truth in the extract from the
Centreville 0bso'uer, which we print below.
Identities in nature and the advantages which
might flow from political union will never
override the barrier Of personal want of famil-
iarity and sympathy and establish a consolidated
STAGE upon this Peninsula. The strongest unions
are formed by the closest ntimacies in political
and business as well as social life, and there is
nothing which will so soon beget desire for
the joining together of fortunes between the.sep-
arated people of the Peninsula as more intimate
acquaintance In business way. 1t is not abso-
lutely known that Peninsular union would be ac-
ceptable, or is even desirable to majority OF
the people interested. There has not been suf-
fcent intercourse between them by reason of
their political diversities to understand the exact
state of the public feeling in this matter. At
present business interests lead in other direc-
tions commerce and trade have followed in the
train Of political attachments, and the divorce
ment between the people of the Peninsula in
this respect is as absolute and well defined as
between the States which have more natural di
visions. We must first test the sincerity Of the de-
sire among the people for a business union af
ter that we may talk Of political union. The
first is assured the latter will speedily
follow. But, let the Obseuer state its own case
and make known its own grievances and those
Of the people whom it represents
"For the past hundreds of years the people
of the Eastern Shores have been transacting
business with the people of the Western Shore
communication with that section being frequent
and pleasant, whilst the people of Delaware
have been almost as unknown to us as though
they had liv ed in kamtchatka or Greenland
except to those of our people residing near
the border. Now, however. railroads bring us
nearer we meet them oftener, and the oftener
the more we like them. But yet a great deal has
to be accomplished before the Eastern Shore
and Delaware can blot out the old line run by
Mason and Dixon. The people OF Wilmington
must get the Eastern Shore in the habit of buy
ing their goods in that city they must get
them acquainted with the people Of that CITY,
and induce feeling of Freedom and fellowship
Our people know ten Baltimoreans to one Will
mngtonian, and before they can be
induced to leave the old Western Shore
they must be certain that the people they
are TO tack on to are quite as clever and congen-
al, and quite as ready aad anxious to do busi-
ness with them In other words we must know
who we are dealing with, and they must know
us. Now, however, we of the Eastern Shore
know but little of Wilmington and her people,
and Wilmington does not seem to "a e much for
our acquaintance 1t is rare that aiWilmng ton
man is seen Ill our town, and still more rare that
the advertisements of her business houses are
seen in our Eastern Shore papers. Not one we
believe is published in this county, and but few
in any other Thus the lack of acquaintance
the necessary prelude to union. is very much the
fault Of Wilmington herself"