It is a mere seven-months’ abortion, begotten by the bayonet in criminal conjunction with the spirit of Caste, and born before its time, rickety, unformed, unfinished, whose continued existence will be a burden, a reproach, and a wrong.
Sumner uses vivid imagery to describe the illegitimacy and flawed nature of the Louisiana government established during Reconstruction.
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