the task was how to make the eventual logic of sectional reconciliation

任务就是如何找到区域性和解的最终思路
-knitting North and South back together--

把南北方重新拧在一起
how to make the eventual logic of sectional reconciliation

如何找到区域性性和解的最终思路
somehow compatible with the logic of that revolution

并设法与1863年的革命思路
that was put in place in 1863--

相匹配
or in other words, Emancipation? And by logic,

或者说解放黑奴逻辑上来说
I mean you have to put North and South back together,

我意思是必须把南北方融合在一起
but you also now have to deal with the fact

但你也必须得面对一个现实
the slaves have been freed to some new status.

奴隶们的自由已经到了一个新境界
Got to do both.

两手都得抓
Put another way,

换句话说
how do you square black freedom

你如何调和黑人自由