As to the future grandeur of America, and its being a rising empire under one head, whether republican or monarchical, it is one of the idlest and most visionary notions that ever was conceived, even by writers of romance.
Sumner critiques the notion of America's future grandeur as a unified empire, calling it a fanciful idea.
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