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The Republican Party started under the premise that slavery should not be expanded.
共和黨建立的 前提即相信奴隸制不應該擴大
They weren't abolitionists per se, some of them were,
他們本質上并非廢奴主義者 其中一些是
but many of them were not abolitionists,they were anti-slavery men.
但是許多人不是廢奴主義者 他們是反對奴隸制者
And what that meant was that they expected slavery to die a natural death
這意味著他們期待奴隸制以自然死亡的方式消失
but in order to do that, in order for that to happen, slavery had to be contained.
為了達到這一目的 為了讓這一切發生 必須遏制奴隸制
And so the idea was you don't let it expand into the Western Territories.
因此他們的想法是不希望讓奴隸制擴大到西部地區
This new coalition is a coalition of Northerners
這一新的聯盟是北方人的聯盟
who are absolute believers in this idea of a free-labour American dream,
他們絕對相信 自由勞動的美國夢
of their right to go West and get themselves 20 acres of land somewhere,
在西部拓荒的權利 可以在某個地方獲得土地 二十英畝
or 40 acres, or whatever they could get and not have to compete with the slave labour system.
或者四十英畝 或者他們能夠獲得的一切 還有不必和奴隸勞動體系競爭
Lincoln's political life, Lincoln's political career in the 1850s was built on this question of stopping
林肯的政治生涯 政治前途在1850年代 都在一個問題上 阻止
the expansion of slavery into the West,or what the Republicans called the free soil persuasion.
奴隸制向西部擴張 用共和黨的話說就是自由土地的信念問題
The Republican Party, in which Abraham Lincoln fast became a leading light,
共和黨 亞伯拉罕很快成為其中的重要人物
regarded the expansion of slavery as a direct threat to their free soil ideology.
將奴隸制的擴張視為自身自由土地信條的直接威脅
But although the enemy of slavery, they were no friend of the slave.
盡管是奴隸制的敵人 他們絕非奴隸之友
You could be anti-slavery AND anti-black.
你可以既發對奴隸制也反對黑人
You could be anti-slavery and not want black people around.
你可以反對奴隸制同時不希望和黑人生活在一起
And much of the anti-slavery fervour was, "We don't want them around."
反對奴隸制熱情中的很大一部分 就是 我們不想和他們生活在一起
Partly, it was,We don't want them around because they're alien people, they're different,
部分在于 我們不想和他們生活在一起 因為他們是外國人 他們是不一樣的
they're inferior,et cetera, et cetera,
他們是劣等的 等等
but there was also, We don't want them around because they are not paid and they're very bad for wages.
也有部分在于 我們不想和他們生活在一起 他們沒有報酬 不利于我們的工資提高
