Where are they going to sell them?

他们会从哪里出售他们
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi.

阿拉巴马州路易斯安那州和密西西比州
And you would have the beginnings now of an economy turning in on itself.

你会发现这里出现了一个封闭的经济体
Southerners, many southerners, came to believe slavery

南方人许多的南方人开始相信奴隶制
had to expand or it could die.

要么扩张要么灭亡
They also wanted political parity in the United States Congress.

他们也想要求在国会上的政治平衡
Every new state meant two new senators.

每一个新州都想要两名议员
And the number of states--free states to slave states, folks--

州的数量自由州与奴隶州比例
in 1850,was 15 to 15.

在1850年是15对15
They wanted to sustain that parity.

他们想维持那种平衡
And California out there--it's going to have a sudden statehood

而加利福尼亚它在1850年突然成为一州
in 1850 because of gold being discovered--

由于那里发现了金矿