To the congressional leadership that was just fine for now.

但对国会的领导人来说这就已经够了
The Ironclad Oath was a political message,

所谓的绝对忠诚誓词是一个政治信号
it was a symbolic oath.

是一个象征性的誓词
They knew you'd never get a majority of whites who could take this.

他们知道不可能找到很多白人来宣誓
The third part,

第三
they said all officers above the rank of lieutenant,

所有中尉以上职务的官员
and all civil officers of all kinds in the Confederacy would

所有任何邦联的民事官员
not only be not pardoned,

将不会得到赦免
they would be disfranchised forever,

他们将被剥夺公民权
declared not--the actual language in the bill was,

这一点没有公开文件上这样说的
"Not a citizen of the United States."

他们将不再是联邦的公民
It was almost as though they were giving every office holder,

这几乎就是给了每一个邦联职员