the preservation of a slave system,

要保留奴隶制
the preservation of a certain kind of racial control over a society

要保留一种社会种的族控制
that they now greatly feared would be threatened.

他们非常担心这会受到威胁的
And this is, in part, what happened in Georgia in their divided vote,

这是佐治亚脱离大会中发生的一部分事
because in Georgia the upper counties of Georgia,

因为佐治亚的中心郡县
those more hilly, mountainous regions of north Georgia,

那些北佐治亚的山区
voted against secession.

都投票反对脱离联邦
The vote on secession in

佐治亚1861年1月19日举行的
Georgia on January 19,1861 was 166 to 130.

脱离联邦投票结果是166票对130票
130 of those people who were elected

这些人中有130个被选中作为州代表
to go to the Georgia Secession convention as delegates voted against it.

到佐治亚脱离联邦大会去投反对票
And here was the theory that was at stake.

这是个危险的想法