Calhoun exclaimed: “Not at all; we have no name because we ought to have none; we are only States united, and have no country.” Alas, if it be so!--if this well-loved land, for which so many have lived, for which so many have died, is not our country!
Sumner expresses his deep emotional connection to the concept of a unified country in response to Calhoun's views.
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