even though it was kind of a half-baked loaf of bread to him;

尽管对他来说共和党是个半生不熟的面包
it wasn't real abolitionism.

共和党不主张真正的废奴主义
This case drove him further into their laps.

这件事令他融入到共和党圈子里面
He gave a speech largely to black audience

他在斯科特案后发表了一次演讲
in the wake of Dred Scott.

听众大多数是黑人
And so typical of Douglass's brilliance as an orator,

道格拉斯是个才华横溢的演说家
he started to discuss how he saw fear on the horizon,

他一开始就谈到他如何看待
and trouble and dread on the horizon,

即将到来的麻烦和恐惧
and he said he saw what he called

他是这么说的
"The manifold discouragements of my people everywhere I go."

"不论我走到哪里我的子民都反对我"
I quote him.

我引述他的话
"They fling their broad and gloomy shadows

"他们巨大而阴暗的身影