It is difficult to see how any person, loyal to Freedom, and desirous of guarding it by all constitutional means, can support the national candidates of either of these parties, without surrendering the cause he professes to have at heart.
Sumner argues that supporting national candidates from either party would compromise one's commitment to freedom.
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