The sun., 1901-07-07
HOW ABOUT DELMARvIAf
Prop ossd Name for New state TO Include Del
aware and the Peninsula.

Delmarvta In the odd name that some per-
sons would bestow upon a hypothetical State
OF the American Union A Aproposal TO create
suoh q State by the union Of Delaware with
tho Eastern Shore counties OF Maryland
and virginia has been often discussed usu-
ally with considerable Interest and decided
approval By the people OF Delaware. oc-
oasionally with qualified approval by part
OF the people OF Maryland most directly
Interested, never with either interest or
approval by tho Eastern shore men Of Vir-
gina and usually with unqualified disap-
proval by Virginia and Maryland.
The Calverts claimed under their original
grant Of nearly two and three-quarter CEN
turtle. ago not only the Eastern shore OF Mary
land, but also tho whole Of what s now Della
ware They failed. however, after long nti-
CATION with the Penns. to make good their
title 70 Delaware. and the order OF the
En- gllsh court for a partition OF the Peninsula
between the litisants brought about the run
ming OF tho most famous boundary In American
history, Mason and Dixon's line
Whenever the Eastern shore counties OF
Maryland have felt themselves assrisved
politically or otherwise in their relations
with their neighbors OF the Western shore
some Eastern shore men have talked OF the
advantages OF union with Delaware. such
was the condition Of feeling on the Eastern
shore about seventy years ago that the Della
ware Legislature sent to the Maryland 1egis-
lature a proposal looking 70 a union OF the
Eastern sho<e counties with Delaware. ana
A resolution for reference NJ the question
10 the people Of the Eastern shore was carried
through the lower house Of Maryland and
narrowly defeated in the senate
The subject was again much discussed.
especially in Delaware, rather more than
twenty years ago and there has never been
a time since when the question WAS not ono
var. r.'i The Es.tern Rt sfors became somewhat
Interested In the matter again when at tho
election Of Wellington to tho Senate tho his
was was ignored. but the discussion at tia, time
took on no great Importance
We're the. suggested union Of pelayare
the h resultant ssS 8 State ate WOULD have an area Of
above 1000 square miles. considerably moro
than double that Of DelaMare, and popu-
atl9n OF nearly 80, 900 The state Of Mar Mary
Delaware would considerably more than
dHsSls RSIsl Nfg 2SR%.Sd Sd the peninsula counties
Of Maryland and Virginia have a common
| English origin and n population almost ex-
Slnsiysy native and So OF nPtye eon anIG@JtrSy
half the population Of Delaware. has a large
! foreign element Eastern Shore traditions,
also. are more distinctly southern and aris-
strong Quaker element in northern Della
| ware has no counterpart on the Eastern
Shore
| Delaware has nlw avs beon favorable 20 the
proposed change because she has every
thing To- gain by II, and the attempted pur-
chase Of n seat In the United Stut's Senate
| by wholesale bribery AZ tho polls and bribery
| on a smaller scale IN the Legislature has
recently called the attention OF the people
| of Delaware, to the dangers that may beset
| a very small state
| Such piecinl together OF fragments to
| form 4 State has not been known in reCcat
| American history though such things hap
| pened IN Colonial days and familiar pro-
| vision Of the Constitution seems to ContnU-
| plato the possibility Of future cases Trans
| fers Of small aroas from one State TO another
| have been frequent In the settlement OF bound
| ary disputes. and within o few years Penn
| territory Q few square miles which had been
| In dspute for more tAaA century