a member of Lincoln's cabinet, his Attorney General

他是林肯的内阁成员首席检察官
and read Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals

看看桃瑞丝·恩斯·古德温的《竞争团队》
if you want to know just

你就会知道
how much Chase was scheming to dump Lincoln,

切斯作为林肯的首席检察官
as his own Attorney General.

是怎样图谋废黜林肯的
Chase may have had the most beautiful daughter in Washington, Kate Chase,

切斯的女儿凯特·切斯惊艳首府
but he had no style.

可是他自己却很没型
And then there was an effort to dump Lincoln

还有另一些人则想罢免林肯
in favor of the candidate John C. Fremont,

而想让约翰·弗里蒙特上任
the same Fremont who had run in 1856

弗里蒙特在1856年的总统选举中
as the Republican presidential candidate.

是共和党候选人
And Lincoln was himself all but convinced,

1864年7月到8月初