These three they settled,

这三个问题他们都解决了
but there were three others they did not settle so easily,

但还有另外三个就没有那么容易
and they were the extent of the right to vote, for black men.

比如黑人投票权的问题
Would this amendment declare the right to vote for black men everywhere,

修正案会赋予黑人在各地的投票权吗
or only in the South, only in ex-Confederate states?

或者只在南方还是仅仅在前邦联州内
The inconvenient and terrible problem on this one, of course,

这里的一个非常麻烦的问题
is that the very men writing this bill

就是起草法案的那个人
know that in their own northern states black suffrage is not popular,

知晓北方诸州的黑人投票权尚不普及
to say the least,

至少可以这样说
and most northern whites still don't want black men to vote,

大部分北方白人不希望让黑人享有投票权
especially in their own states.

特别是在他们自己所在的州
The evidence of that was so clear, the State of Connecticut, this state,

这样的证据很明了比如在康涅狄格州