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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 To the Church of Peterboro

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04717.51 Author/Creator: Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 Place Written: Peterboro, New York Type: Printed document Date: 20 July 1849 Pagination: 1 p. ; 30.7 x 20.1 cm. Order a Copy

Uses an allegory of a tea, coffee, and liquor merchant to illustrate that "the wickedness in one branch... taints with wickedness every other branch..."

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Crozier, Hiram P., 1803-1883

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