It is a mere seven-month’ 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 a vivid metaphor to describe the illegitimacy of the Louisiana government, likening it to a flawed and premature birth.
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