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Horace Mann: “No state has greater conveniences for ship navigation and ship building than Virginia.”

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No state has greater conveniences for ship navigation and ship building than Virginia.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann notes Virginia's advantages in shipping and shipbuilding.

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