I'll only cite a couple

我只援引两个例子
Grant in his Message to Congress in effect

格兰特在《向国会致辞》中说
said Reconstruction was now largely over

重建时期已经基本结束
Frederick Douglass, though he wasn't thrilled with the fact

弗雷德里克·道格拉斯得知获得通过的
that it was the most conservative version

《第十五修正案》是最为保守的版本
of the Fifteenth Amendment and so on, nevertheless said,

他并未吃惊也说到
"We can now breathe a new atmosphere;

"我们现在可以呼吸到新鲜空气了
we have a new earth beneath and a new sky above

我们脚下是崭新的大地头顶是崭新的天空"
That's a dream

一场梦
One Republican newspaper called it

有份共和党的报纸说它是
the nation's second birth; second founding

国家第二次诞生第二次建国
And Wendell Phillips, again the Massachusetts abolitionist,

而马萨诸塞州的废奴主义者温德尔·菲利普斯说