But it can be little more than a transient experiment; for who can doubt that this imperial exotic, planted by foreign care and propped by foreign bayonets, must disappear before the ascending glory of the Republic?
Sumner expresses skepticism about the sustainability of foreign-imposed governance in Mexico, predicting its eventual failure against American ideals.
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