[snippy_about_it]

LOL. We get squirrel questions everyday!

[colorado tanker]

Hi everyone. Sneaking time for a little Saturday FReep.

I agree with the consensus so far, that Maryland could never be allowed to secede.

Now suppose Congress in those days was run by Dean-dong, Reid and Pelosi types who would not allow the President to do those nasty "illegal" things to keep Maryland in the Union? Well, if the Union had done nothing and had Maryland or Eastern Maryland seceded, I suppose we would have had to evacuate Washington and set up a temporary capital somewhere, maybe Philadelphia. That would have been a disaster, severely shaking Northern morale and possibly would have shifted the country to a Copperhead majority. Well, that's why Lincoln determined Maryland would never secede.

[PAR35]

"We get squirrel questions everyday!"

Just print this out. It provides the answer to most squirrel questions.

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir14.html

More answers here:

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html

By the way - it finally got hot enough and dry enough that the ducks on the roof went away.