and there would be a flaw and a compromise element

各种瑕疵抑或是其它问题
in almost everything passed in these years--nothing came out pure,

在近几年通过的所有法令中基本都能找到
out of these terrible debates over Reconstruction--

重建进程中从未出现过任何无瑕的事物
its great flaw was that it was directed against

它最大的瑕疵就是它所针对的
public but not private acts of discrimination.

是那些面向公众而非私人的歧视法案
I might still discriminate against you any way I wish privately,

我仍然可以私下里以任何方式歧视你
with my business, with my private facility,

比如在做生意时在私人场所里
with my school, with a lot of ways,

或者是在学校里方式有很多种
but in terms of public civic rights,

但仅就公民权益来说
it at least put in place the beginnings of the idea of citizenship rights.

至少它的实施标志着公民权的开始
Secondly, this Congress renewed the Freedman's Bureau.

第二该国会赋予自由民管理局新的活力
They gave it a new life for another year.

它给管理局长达一年的喘息时间