Excerpt from a speech by Albert Gallatin Brown, a Mississippi politician
September 26, 1860
"(The Northerners) hate us now, and they teach
their children in their schools and churches to
hate our children...the John Brown raid...the
abolitionists among us, tell the tale... The North is
accumulating power, and it means to use that
power to emancipate (free) your slaves... Disunion
is a fearful thing, but emancipation is worse.
Better leave the union in the open face of day,
than be lighted from it at midnight by the
arsonist's torch."
1. Explain how the passage above is an example
of regionalism/sectionalism.