Charles Sumner: “It is an interest that is not local, as the bill is for the benefit of mechanics in all parts of the loyal States, from…”

“It is an interest that is not local, as the bill is for the benefit of mechanics in all parts of the loyal States, from Maryland, in the South, to Massachusetts and Maine, in the North and East, and then stretching from New York, on the seaboard, to Missouri, beyond the Mississippi.”