Others have seemed to regard the recent developments of disunion and treason with surprise and alarm: he has esteemed them the bitter, but natural, fruit of the deadly tree we have so long been watering and cherishing.
Sumner reflects on the inevitability of disunion and treason as consequences of long-standing injustices.
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