Panguitch Progress | 1915-07-02 | Page 3 | "Mason and Dixon's Line"

MASON AND DIXONS LINE popular misapprehension as to meaning of term and just what the phrase implied very incorrect la is the general belief that mason and dixons line na as originally la laid idoff off divided the tha slave hold ing states from the free frea states on the contrary it ran for one third of its ita whole length between maryland and delaware both of which were slaveholding slave holding states at the time the line was run purely to settle a boundary dispute between pennsylvania maryland and delaware all the same the actual mason alason and dixous line was as much synonym for trouble and dissension in its day a as a was the figure of speech to which in after years yeara it gave rise and the phrase will hold bitter meaning to some borne until lu in that looked for day of charity to all men shall be fulfilled dr john recent prophecy that when the people of the south and the north get together they will forget there was ever a mason alason and dixons line southern womans comans magazine