Meanwhile, it should try to avoid sectionalism, geographical and ethnical discriminations and commit in being the driving fuel of economic and social development.
By a strange turn of fortune's wheel, the party of Hamilton, Washington, Adams, the party of the grand nation, became the party of provincialism and nullification.
In a noble inaugural address, Jefferson urged conciliation and an end to sectionalism, and tried to set at rest the fear that he planned a new revolution.