Newspapers across the North, strongly Republican newspapers,

北方的报纸势力颇大的共和党的报纸
started to print headlines like: "Do We Have a Government?;"

开始在头条印刷 "我们有政府吗"
"Wanted, a Policy;" Or,

"我们只要一个政策" 或者
"Come to the Point Mr.Lincoln." And so on.

"抓住重点林肯先生" 等等
People were ready now--do something!

人们准备好了做一些事情吧
Now his Secretary of State, duly appointed in great part,

现在他的国务卿正式任命的
as Doris Kearns Goodwin has shown

正如多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温在
and argued in a recent best-selling book,

最近最畅销的书里描述的那样
Team of Rivals, was William H. Seward,

政敌团队威廉·苏华德
Lincoln's principle rival for the nomination of the Republican Party.

林肯在共和党提名中的主要竞争对手
Lincoln not only put a few of his enemies in his own cabinet

林肯将对手安排在内阁中
to control them and use them politically--

为了控制他们在政治上利用他们