来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第20集 第20集》
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and in effect, therefore, were not voting for emancipation..也就是 没有都投票赞成解放黑奴 -
Keep that in mind别忘了这些 -
when we start discussing Reconstruction.当我们开始讨论内战重建时会用到 -
Eighteen of the Free states made it possible for soldiers自由州中的十八个州的士兵 -
to vote at the front; only two did not,投给了前者[解放黑奴] 除了两个州 -
and even those let soldiers vote by absentee.甚至让士兵们缺席投票[即通讯投票] -
It is the first time in world history, so far as we know,就我所知 这是世界历史上的第一次 -
that a republic in the midst--在一个共和政体中[进行缺席投票] -
there weren't that many republics to speak of, of course这并不像许多共和党人说的那样 当然 -
but the first time in the course of a civil war在内战中这是首次 -
that a republic held a general election and pulled it off.共和党举行大选并获得胜利 -
Most importantly, Lincoln won an extraordinary最重要的是 林肯赢得了意义重大的