From the nature of the case, if you have the power to shut out cholera from the ports, you must be intrusted with an associate power to follow this same enemy even into the interior, precisely as you follow goods escaping the exercise of your power in the ports.
Sumner argues that if the government can prevent cholera at ports, it must also have the power to address it inland.
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