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Horace Mann: “For which practice have our cities been conspicuous,--for their obedience to these laws or for their violation of them?”

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For which practice have our cities been conspicuous,--for their obedience to these laws or for their violation of them?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann questions whether cities are known for obeying or violating temperance laws.

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