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by the line of 38° 44' which separates Maryland
from Pennsylvania, than by the Potomac river,
wich divides Maryland from Virginia—Mary-
land remains a neutral or disputed ground.

The same may be said of her as a slave, or
non-slave holding state. Her policy is neither
attached exclusively to the one nor the other
side of this unpleasant question—Her laws re-
cognize and sustain slavery, but at the same
time allow of emancipation on a scale as broad
as seems consistent with the well being of her
society.

In regard to dimensions of territory, Mary-
land is the seventeenth state of the union—six-
teen of the States have more territory, and se-
ven states have less. The surface is about 13,-
950 square miles, of which nearly one fifth is
water.

In regard to population, Maryland is the
tenth state of the union—nine states have a
greater, and fourteen states have a less number
of inhabitants. In regard to density of popu-
lation, Maryland is the fifth state of the union,

By the census of 1820, the total number of
inhabitants in the United States was 9,625,724
—dividing that sum by twenty four, the num-
ber of states in the union, and it gives 401,072
as the average number for ear h state. The po-
pulation of Maryland was 407,350, which is a
fraction of 6278 over the average. No other
state in the union approximates so near to the
average number. Maryland, according to the