had illustrated articles about it within a week,

都在一周之内刊登了插图文章
the famous pictures of blacks carrying their dead home to bury them;

黑人把死者抬回去下葬的那些名画
quotations from women describing--

女人们这样描述－－
a woman describing dragging her son away from the dogs

一个女人说到她和野狗争夺她的儿子
who were eating his body, and so on and so forth

那狗正在撕咬他的尸体诸如此类
And it led to a national investigation, a federal investigation,

对事件进行了全国性的调查由联邦进行
led by the Republican appointed U.S. Attorney in New Orleans,

由共和党指派新奥尔良州的联邦检察官
whose name was James Beckwith, a northern-born New England,

他名叫詹姆斯·贝克威兹出生在北方的新英格兰
old abolitionist fellow with a good deal of zeal

老派的废奴主义者但充满激情
who heroically tried to bring indictments and prosecutions

他英勇地打算提起诉讼
There were indeed many indictments

实际上提起了多宗诉讼
but only three convictions, in the wake of Colfax

但有关科尔法克斯的只有三宗定罪