away from the issues of the South,

让人们忘记了南方的问题
the issues of the freedmen, the issues of Reconstruction

忘记了已获自由的人还有重建的问题
The other major path to Southern redemption,

南方救赎的另外一条主要途径
the success of the white Southern Democratic Party,

南方白人民主党的胜利
was of course the uses of violence

当然是动用暴力
But before I give you a little more litany on the level of Klan terrorism,

不过在我唠叨3K党恐怖活动之前
think with me for just a moment

大家不妨一起思考一下
what those Radical Republicans originally—

共和党激进派当初到底
almost none of whom are really in power anymore:

他们后来几乎都不再掌权
Thaddeus Stevens died in 1869;

泰迪尔斯·史蒂文斯死于1869年
Charles Sumner dies in 1874;

查尔斯·萨姆纳死于1874
Benjamin Wade is long gone, as a senator from Ohio

本杰明·韦德也早已不是代表俄亥俄的参议员