The policy of those who will eventually become the leaders here at the South is, for the present, to accept the best they can get, to acquiesce in anything and everything, but to strain every nerve to regain the political power and ascendency they held under Buchanan.
Sumner describes the current political strategy of Southern leaders as one of temporary acquiescence while they plan to regain power.
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