来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第9集第9集》

that it is in a course of ultimate extinction"--

相信奴隶制将最终走向灭绝"
and those two words, more than anything else Lincoln

这段话是林肯在内战前
had uttered before the Civil War,

最掷地有声的讲话
Southern Democrats would never forget--

南部的民主党人将对此永生难忘
"Or its advocates will push it forward

"要不就是奴隶制的鼓吹者将其传播四方
till it shall become alike lawful in all the states,

直至奴隶制获得合法地位
old as well as new,

无论新旧
north as well as south.

无论南北
Have we no tendency to the latter condition?

难道我们没有朝后一条路发展的迹象吗
Let anyone who doubts carefully

若是有人存有疑问
contemplate that now almost complete legal combination,

就看看那个几乎是完整的法定结合体吧
piece of machinery so to speak"--

权且称它为一部机器"