like in the Hartford Convention of 1814,

就像1814年的哈特福德公约
like in personal liberty laws that we'll come to a bit later.

就像我们马上要说到的个人自由法
In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法
the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law

威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法
that said they were not going to enforce

规定他们不会执行
the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves,

逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴
and the justification was

理由是
that it was their state's right to do so.

该怎么做是他们州的权利
So it isn't just States' Rights that's distinctively Southern.

所以说有独特的南方风格的不是州权利
Southerners shared with Northerners a faith in progress,

南方人和北方人对发展有共同的信念
if you breathed the air in American in the 1840s and '50s.

十九世纪四五十年代的美国就是例子
The idea that America stood for some kind of progress,

那种美国代表了发展进步