来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第6集 第6集》
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were becoming a burden, possibly a danger.奴隶正在变成一个负担 可能是一种危险 -
As the slave population in a Georgia or an Alabama乔治亚州 阿拉巴马州 -
or a Mississippi和密西西比的奴隶人口 -
continues to grow and grow and grow and grow,持续不断的增长 -
but nowhere to expand to,但是没有地方扩展 -
that slave population may become indeed a powder keg.于是奴隶人口就变成了一个炸药桶 -
One of the things that southern statesmen feared the most--南方的政治家最担心的事情之一 -
and I cannot stress enough,这点实在是太重要了 -
because it's going to be right there因为就是这个情况 -
at the heart of their secession debates in 1860--就是他们在1860年脱离联邦的争论中心 -
is they feared what they kept calling now this--他们担心如果一直呼吁此事 -
it's more than a theory to them--对他们而言这已经不是一个理论了