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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], An English opinion of "what Constitutes the South." (search)
meaning. They were known already to the colonists as designating the settlements lying respectively North and South of "Mason and Dixon's Line," so called from the colonial engineers who drew the boundary line between the provinces of Pennsylvania one between "North" and "South"--that is between the non-slaveholding and the slaveholding States. By a mere accident "Mason and Dixon's Line" stopped short about twenty miles of the Ohio, and thus a narrow strip of land, called, from a fancied r the "Pan-Handle," still remains in possession of the State of Virginia, though lying north of the line of the Ohio and "Mason and Dixon."--This little outlying appendage of Virginia is the nucleus, and contains the pretended capital, of that anomaeat State from which it seceded. With this trifling exception, of importance either to the South or North, the line of "Mason and Dixon," and the course of the Ohio, indicate accurately, and have for the last half century been held to indicate, th