most commanding motives, namely, those of immediate commercial interest which link us indissol u bli as one nation. this appeal to union, which is compounded of both sensibility and sense, culminates in washington's first warning against sectionalism and the designing men who would capitalize on geographic divisions who would divide and alienate affections rather than bridge them. one wonders what washington would make of our current partisan gee ago gra if i. washington at mitts that political fraternity on the large scale that the united states is attempting is an experiment, but as such, tis well worth a fair and full experiment. we are accordingly authorized to distrust the patriotism of the parochial naysayers. though washington doesn't coin the word unamerican, he is very much fostering public suspicion of certain political positions, positions which because they could undermine the very continuance of the union, must be made disreputable. as lincoln would later say, having learned it from washingt washington, in this and like communities public sentiment is everything. with public sentiment