abandoning a lot of black elected officials

放弃一大批黑人民选官员
who are still running those governments,

虽然他们现在还在职
and the Republicans promised they would help get Democrats

共和党人承诺他们将帮助民主党人
elected governors of those states.

竞选这些州的州长
They agreed to remove all final federal troops from the South.

他们同意从南部撤走所有的联邦军队
And this has always been a big symbolic thing;

虽然这只是个象征而已
well, which is exactly what it is,

准确的说就是一个象征
it's a big symbolic thing.

不过是一个象征性的事物
There were very few troops left anywhere in the South

在南方各地都留有一些军队
and those few thousand that were still there are located

他们中的许多人一直
in forts along the coast.

驻扎在沿着海岸而建的堡垒
And quietly Ulysses Grant

二月第三周尤利西斯·格兰特