Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — A Curious Map. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Map.

Writer In Washington Capital. I saw a map in the library of the War Department which I have often wished to see again. It was Mr, Cameron’s idea of what the map of the United States ought to Idbk like’after the suppression of the rebellion. In it the names of the revolted States wepe obliterated. None of the Southern State lines were retained. Even the border State lines were rectified. Delaware was absorbed by Pennsylvania and Marland. Maryland also took in the eastern shore of Virginia; Virginia was divided and the ancient name disappeared; natural lines were adopted to form new States, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi was thrown with Texas to make four new States, but none to come into the Union until 1880. Florida was obliterated, States takirtg the place of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama getting a coastline at her expense. I hope this map has not been destroyed. It would be of great interest to the future historian, as showing what a politician would have done with the United States if he had had the power. From all that I observed in those early days of the war I am convinced that the revolution did not go deep enough for Simon Cameron, and that it went deeper than was anticipated at its beginning by Mr. Lincoln.