The Washington quote, of course, absolutely presupposes the "mutual respect," that underlay the achievement of the unity he describes. But, then also, Washington states:
In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations,--northern and southern--Atlantic and western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
While the misrepresentations may have flown from both sides by the panic of 1857, they started as an attack on Southern society, well before the Southern "Fire-eaters" responded.
And your reading that that line applied to Brown and not Webster's endorsement of the Compromise of 1850 demonstrates your lack of understanding of the concept of paragraphs.
While the misrepresentations may have flown from both sides by the panic of 1857, they started as an attack on Southern society, well before the Southern "Fire-eaters" responded.
What attack?
The Washington quote, of course, absolutely presupposes the "mutual respect," that underlay the achievement of the unity he describes.
Like a ghetto hoodlum, you seem to believe that gettin' dissed is reason to start shooting.
…it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.--George Washington