The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-23
INJVsTIGE 10 MARYLAND.

That usually staid and conservative
journal, the Warrenton Nirginian, lost its
temper a few days back and shot off
the following TRADE at the State Of Mary
land:
"Hin and Murphy, Of New, York, smith,
Of New Jersey. did as might have been
expected Of them, hut the Democrats
thought a little better Of Maryland tnan
that she would send two traitors 70 the
Senate at once. After reiiecuon on me
situation we do not see Why anything bel
ter waS ever expected Of that state
She was coming South at the Outbre@k
Of the war as fast as south taronna.
bat when the time came she betrayed the
South then as her senators have betray-
ed the Democratic party now. II IS n
good cline for deceit and trencherv and
Gormanism IS Indigenous TO the soil. Tie
may remain the pet and 1901 or mat
state. but we hope he VIII be kicked out
of the national Democratic party
Now. we are entirely ready to join our
respected contemporary in all 1t may say
denouncing German and Gormlnism. But
We must entirely dissent from IT In what
It has to say Of Maryland The people Of
Maryland are more like the people of
Virginia than the people Of any ether
State in this Union. We don't think
much Of the Baltimore dude" but the
hardy men Of Maryland are men, and the
same kind of men as the Virginians are.
Nor is Maryland 70 be too severely con-
demned for the course she pursued dur
ing the war. she was very far from
having a population unanimous like that
Of Virginia in its adherence to the Con-
federacy. A large part Of her population
was intensely devoted to the Union and
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north Of Washington, and had not the
opportunities to take measures for seced-
ing that Virginia had. She would no doubt
have seeded in spite Of the Union ele-
ment If Washington city had been north
Of her.
An old Confederate veteran at Dola-
plane. in Fauquier county. sent the fore
going extract from the Vrelnian to the
Baltimore sun, accompanying ii with the
following letter:
II am sure the editor wrote IL hastily
and without rejecting upon the wrong
he was doing to the great State IF Mary
land and her true and high-sOuled peOple
Had the writer Of this article ever touch
ed elbows along the lines with her gal
liant sons as ! have done. when The
ranks were Wreathed in flame and the
ground trembling with the roar OF battle
ice Of the State. much less written it.
In the name Of all her brave boys. who
gave their lives for the cause We so
bravey maintained, and in behalf Of all
who survive, we. of Virginia, do hereby
protest against the wrong done our sis
ter State and the folly Of holding the
Democracy OF Maryland responsible for
the treachery Of these senators when all
over Maryland the people are holding I'M
GipnatiOn meetings. bitterly denOurCing
these men for their shameful betrayal OF
their trust"
We say amen to every word of this
Maryland. If she did not secede, sent us
large contingent Of her best citizens.
whose heroic conduct upon a hundred
battle fields entwined Maryland's nag
with the battle flag Of the Confederacv.
and secured for it a place as glorious and
as honorable rs that Of the Confederate
flag itself. The names of General Bradley
II. Johnson. General Charles Winder. Cen
eral Arnold ElZey. General George II.
Steuart. General r. II. Trimble. Colonel
Snowden Andrews. and many others will
forever occupy ono of the most plorious
pages in the history Of the war 1t be-
comes US not 10 disparage Maryland.