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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland. (search)
it became evident that her effort to resist invasion, however gallant and determined, would have resulted in certain defeat, and the consequent destruction of Baltimore city, which contains two-fifths of her whole population, and nearly all of her commercial capital and enterprise. Baltimore then had less than thirty-five hunmost rampart of the young republic. Maryland and Virginia together possess the Chesapeake and Potomac. They jointly hold the great railroad which unites Baltimore city to Wheeling and Parkesburg. They are the proprietors of the wealth of the Alleghanies; the boundless coal-fields; the stupendous ship timber; the inexhaustib!" Maryland is indispensable to Virginia in many ways. Without the Eastern Shore of Maryland, how would you hold the Eastern Shore of Virginia? Without Baltimore city and its great railroad, how can you make it the interest of Western Virginia to shake off the foul embrace of the invader? That public work is essential to t