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Chapter 32
第32章
The Mexican War
墨西哥戰爭
329. The Republic of Texas.
329．得克薩斯共和國
The Mexicans won their independence from Spain in 1821 and founded the Mexican Republic. Soon immigrants from the United States settled in the northeastern part of the new republic. This region was called Texas. The Mexican government gave these settlers large tracts of land, and for a time everything went on happily. Then war broke out between the Mexicans and the Texans. Led by Samuel Houston, a settler from Tennessee, the Texans won the battle of San Jacinto and captured General Santa Anna, the president of the Mexican Republic. The Texans then established the Republic of Texas (1836) and asked to be admitted to the Union as one of the United States.
墨西哥人1821年脫離西班牙而獨立，他們建立了墨西哥共和國。很快，來自美國的移民在這個新共和國的東北部定居，這個地區被叫做得克薩斯，墨西哥政府給這個地區的殖民者大塊土地。有一段時間，這一切都快樂地進行著，后來發生了墨西哥人與得克薩斯人的戰爭。在來自田納西的殖民地居民薩繆爾·休斯頓的帶領下，得克薩斯人在圣雅辛托之戰中獲勝，并俘虜了墨西哥共和國的總統桑托·安那將軍，于是，得克薩斯人建立了得克薩斯共和國（1836年），并申請加入聯邦作為美國的一個州。
330. The Southerners and Texas.
330．南方人與得克薩斯
The application of Texas for admission to the Union came as a pleasant surprise to many Southerners. As a part of the Mexican Republic Texas had been free soil. But Texas was well suited to the needs of the cotton plant. If it were admitted to the Union, it would surely be a slave state or, perhaps, several slave states. The question of admitting Texas first came before Jackson. He saw that the admission of Texas would be strongly opposed in the North. So he put the whole matter to one side and would have nothing to do with it.
得克薩斯申請加入聯邦令許多南方人感到驚喜，因為作為墨西哥共和國一部分的得克薩斯一直是一片自由的土地，而得克薩斯特別適于種植棉花，如果接受得克薩斯加入聯邦，它當然會成為一個奴隸州，或者成為幾個奴隸州。杰克森首先發現了接受得克薩斯的一個問題，他認識到接受得克薩斯將遭到北方人的強烈反對，因此他將這件事放到一邊，并且不打算處置這件事。
