Tendered his resignation and said

提交了辞职报告
he would go back home to South Carolina

说要回南卡老家
And submit himself to the people of his district.

和老家的人民同甘共苦
And he did.

他的确做到了
And they overwhelmingly re-elected him.

但是人们几乎全票再次选他
He also received more than one hundred commemorative canes in the mail,

还通过邮件收到一百多根纪念杖
some of which you can see today at the Caroliniana

现在在南卡罗莱纳州哥伦比亚市的
Library in Columbia, South Carolina.

卡罗莱纳图书馆还能看到一些
This became, of course, a cause célèbre,

这成为轰动一时的事件
a brutal example now of the way in which

也说明一个残酷的现实
compromise was being ruined,

其中妥协破裂
middle realm for moderation, was perhaps being destroyed.

实行温和稳健之策也不可能了