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Horace Mann: “But again; seeing that Wheeling, as a seat for manufactures, is equal to Pittsburg, and inferior to no town in America…”

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But again; seeing that Wheeling, as a seat for manufactures, is equal to Pittsburg, and inferior to no town in America, except Richmond; and that, moreover, she has almost no slaves; why is Wheeling so far behind Pittsburg, and comparatively so slow in her growth?
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann compares Wheeling's manufacturing potential to Pittsburgh's and questions its slower growth.

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