...Union, now polluted by a Lincoln, a Seward, and a Chase-Men will look each other in the face, and sigh with heavy hearts at the rending asunder of your noble State from poor, down-trodden and chained Maryland ; but, although we will be separated geographically, our hearts will remain in the bosom of the home of him who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Virginia ...