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Horace Mann: “We glory in Wheeling, because she only, in Virginia, deserves to be called a manufacturing town.”

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We glory in Wheeling, because she only, in Virginia, deserves to be called a manufacturing town.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann praises Wheeling as the only manufacturing town in Virginia deserving of recognition.

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