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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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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