agree to separate and part in peace.

和平的分离吧
If you are unwilling we should part in peace, tell us so;

如果你们不愿意和平的分离告诉我们
and we shall know what to do

如果你们的问题是屈服或反抗
when you reduce the question to submission or resistance.

我们将采取必要的行动
If you remain silent you will compel us

如果你们保持沉默那就是在逼我们
to infer by your acts what you intend.

去猜测你们行动的意图
In that case, California will become the test question.

加利福利亚就像一块探路石
If you admit her, under all the difficulties that oppose her admission,

如果你不顾众人反对接受了加州独立
you compel us to infer that

就是在逼我们认为是要
you intend to exclude us

把我们从
from the whole of the acquired territories of the West,

这西部辽阔的土地上割离出去
with the intention of destroying irretrievably

其目的便是为了永久的摧毁