Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, and Cecil, Harford and Baltimore Counties·, Maryland, were much intensified. Mason and Dixon line was the imaginary demarcation between two wholly antagonistic social and po- �8 THE CHRISTIANA RIOT. litical orders. The same person might be a Maryland slave under Maryland

legal it may have been, technically, was evidently no more pleasant than it was profitable and popular. It seems that the party who accompanied Edward Gorsuch to Christiana—some of whom retreated rather ingloriously—were not animat- ed wholly by a spirit of philanthropy and patriotism. Thrift was their

. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Other Author(s): Cassel, Abraham Harley, 1820-1908. Title: An anti-slavery reminiscence / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) Trials. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

vote was taken here for the local choice of State can- didates. James Pollock, for Governor, and Henry L. Mott, for Canal Com- missioner were the favorite candi- dates and had the local support. Pol- lock, be it remembered, became Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, by election as an American, just before the