The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-01-11

titled "0ld Maryland Manners, in Serb.
ner's Monthly for January, 1879.
This distinctive character Of the pro.
vince, which put it in close social alliance
with the South, especially Virginia, was
formed many years before that part Of
Western Maryland bordering on Penn.
sylYania was settled. Like the central
part Of the latter State, but unlike it IN
what / may term the sleWness Of its A.
mericanization, the upper line Of Western
Maryland was occupied principally by i'm
migrants from Germany, as the names Of
their defendants indicate, and it is not
surprising, owing TO the difference of ma
tivity, the inconvenience and labor of
travelling, and the consequent disposition
to remain at home, that they and the peo-
pie OF the lower counties were slow in be-
coming acquainted with each other
Baltimore has always had easy commu-
nication by water with the lower counties
and the Eastern Shore. In 1882 a stage
line to Philadelphia was established, and
in the following year similar lines were
started to Frederick and Annapolis. Thus
early began the intimate intercourse be-
tween Baltimore and Frederick, and it
has rapidly increased since the Conestoga
wagon gave way to the railroad car. The
county of Frederick, which originally in
cluded nearly all Of the territory now known
as Western Maryland, came into being in
time to take part in the Revolutionary
war, and her sons helped to give deathless
glory to the Maryland Line. 1t was her
son, too, who, amid the red glare of rock
cts, the bursting of bombs, and the thun-
der of cannon, at Fort McHenry in 1914,
wrote our immortal national song, The
Star-SpangIed Banner.
Long ago social aud material interests
began to bind her to our part of the State,
The same links are connecting us more
and more closely with the counties that
have been taken from her vast territory
and share her glory The railroad, the
telegraph, aud the press are making us n
homogeneous people.
Though Carroll is one of the youngest
counties, dating from the year 1886, when
it was formed out Of portions Of the coun-
ties Of Frederick and Baltimore, it is al
ready recognized as one Of the most i'm
portant, and this city rejoices at its vigor,
enterprise, and general prosperity. Our
people were proud to do honor to William
ii. Rinehart, who came from Carroll, with
his genius for sculpture, to gain, by his
poetic conception and mastery execution,
added lustre to the old name Of MARYLAND.
BY the erection of his statue of Taney at
Annapolis, and by the permanent exhibit
tion of his Clytie at the Peabody Insti-
tute, his name will be sent down to pos
terity in worthy association with those of
the immaculate jurist and the great bene-
factor.
People from all parts of the State have
come here and won fortune and command
ing influence. We say to all MARYLAND
ers :-"Come, for Baltimore is not only
ours, but yours. Welcome to your own p
Let me give emphasis to these state
meats by a quotation in reference TO Bal
timore FROM Western Maryland author
ity-McSherry's History Of Maryland -
'The pulsations of her daily life we're
felt to the remotest quarters Of the State /:
when wealth poured into her lap, its gol-
den streams penetrated into every portion
of the interior, and when difficulty or dis.
tress came upon her, the vibrations of the
shock reached even TO the westernmost
limits of Maryland. She became and con-
tinued the index of State prosperity, and
its centre; and as we'll might the counties
hope to flourish when she is hemmed in
aud pressed down as the members of the
body live when the heart has ceased TO
beat"
Let no one, then, who belongs TO this
dear old State feel himself a stranger in
any part Of it, but whether he find himself
mid the busy streets and monumental col
umns Of Baltimore, or admiring the broad
Patuxent as he threads bis way among the
tobacco plantations along its banks, or
borne over the buoyant waters Of the Ches
apeake, glistening with the sails of her
commerce, or drifting into the inlets of
the Eastern Shore, and, as the gentle tide
bears him nearer to the spreading fruit
groves, yielding to the spell of the placid
beauty aud dreamy stiffness of the scene,
or viewing from some commanding sum.
NIT the wales aud circling hills Of Western
Maryland, with the gaily-painted barns,
the cattle feeding 10 the meadows. the
crystal streams, the fields of waving green
and glimpse Of the purple mountain peaks
in the distance, and marycling at the mag
nihcence Of the panorama around him, let
him say. with generous pride, II love it,
because It is My Maryland"
Not only, however, has Baltimore i'm
portance as the central city Of Maryland,
holding pleasant relations with all parts of
tho State, but il is, it seems to me, and
say it upon perfectly calm consideration,
fast advancing to the position Of a com
mercial metropolis second in national i'm
portancc only to New York. With our
great trunk railroad line to the West; with
the lines connecting US with the South,
and those running TO the North, 20 which
may soon be added new and more direct
one; with our excellent harbor, and the
elevators there holding millions Of bushels
Of grain; with our lines Of steamers to Eu-
rope, to which another line will, it is like
ly, be added in short time, our South
American trade, and the development Of
commerce by our northern and southern
eoast-line steamships; with an increase in
the total value of our exports during the
} year 1873 over the amount in 1877 Of fif-
teen millions dollars; with the probability
Of the opening Of canal connecting the
Chesapeake and the mouth of Delaware
Bay; and with present population Of
about three hundred and fifty thousand,
there appears to be some ground for the
conviction.
Proving itself worthy Of the illustrious
name il bears, and true to the principles
Of the men Of '76, Baltimore will welcome
within its walls men of all creeds and all
nationalities. We, like all the great Amer
lean cities, have among US a largo proper
tion Of Germans and Irish, and other for
eign-born citizens, but they, or their chill
dren, soon become thoroughly Americana
zed. We do not ask, as preliminary to
the reception Of any conner, "Is be Catho-
lie or Protestant 2" nor, as he Christian
or Jew2 We do not ask, "Did he come
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