The South would be allowed

南方被允许
to control its own social institutions,

去支配他们自己的社会制度
its political culture, its lives.

政治文化及其生活
Even Grant himself had said that Reconstruction was dead

甚至格兰特自己都宣称重建已死
and maybe we made mistakes and shouldn't have even tried.

可能我们犯了错误本不应该尝试重建
Grant himself said to his cabinet that the Fifteenth Amendment,

格兰特要求内阁通过第十五修正案
he said, had, quote, "Done the Negro no good." Oh, Ulysses.

他说引用原话就是 "对黑鬼无益"
And right after the inauguration an editorial

在新总统就职典礼之后《国家》杂志
in Nation Magazine--now a fuming, reformist magazine

的一名编辑那是一本改革派杂志
they want to clean up American corruption--

他们想[用杂志推进]整顿美国的腐败
E.L.Godkin, its great editor at the Nation,

E.L.戈德金《国家》的著名编辑
said--he rejoiced in fact at this compromise,

说他很高兴对妥协的结果如此