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
in the end made an absolute best friend out of William Seward--

最后和威廉·苏华德成为好朋友
but not yet.

但是现在还不是
Seward was a dove on this.

苏华德在此问题上是主和派
Seward wanted to negotiate.

苏华德想要和谈