来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第8集第8集》

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
Violence had broken out all over Kansas;

堪萨斯州到处是暴力
Violence had now broken out in the U.S. Senate.

美国参议院内也充满暴力
It led many people to a fearful set of expressions;

这引起许多人的恐慌
There are literally hundreds of these in the press.

新闻对此有许多报道
This is one from William Cullen Bryant

这篇报道来自威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特
who wrote in The New York Evening Post,

他在萨姆纳被打事件之后