Our party is composed of persons from all the other parties,--drawn together by no consideration of mere expediency or personal advantage, but united by a common bond of principle to promote that great cause of Freedom with whose triumph is indissolubly connected the highest welfare of our country.
Sumner highlights the unity of his party based on shared principles rather than expediency.
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