Honest efforts to secure its blessings everywhere within the jurisdiction of Congress are scouted as sectional; and this cause, which the founders of our National Government had so much at heart, is called Sectionalism.
Sumner argues that efforts to promote Freedom are wrongly labeled as sectionalism, contrary to the intentions of the nation's founders.
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