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In the United States there are at least twenty-five state leagues working to the same end, plus a national league and several church councils, notably the Quaker and the Episcopal.
在美國，至少有25個州級協會、一家全國性協會以及一系列教派在為此目的而努力，其中最引人注意的是教友派和主教派。
The assemblage of so much talent and enlightened goodwill behind a single proposal must give pause to anyone who supports the other side,
如此之多的英才賢士群起支持一項善意的提議，當然會使任何敵對的一方望而卻步。
and in the attempt to make clear my views, which are now close to unpopular, I start out by granting that my conclusion is arguable;
為了闡明我的觀點(盡管我的觀點目前幾乎不得人心)，我得申明我的結論是可以爭辯的，
that is, I am still open to conviction, provided some fallacies and frivolities in the abolitionist argument are first disposed of and the difficulties not ignored but overcome.
也就是說，我仍愿意服從真理，但條件是首先必須澄清廢除派論點中的某些謬誤和強詞奪理之言;這些問題必須解決，而不能置之不理。
I should be glad to see this happen, not only because there is pleasure in the spectacle of an airtight case,
若能做到這些，我當然非常高興。這不僅是因為看到無懈可擊的事實乃一件樂事，
but also because I am not more sanguinary than my neighbor and I should welcome the discovery of safeguards - for society and the criminal - other than killing.
而且是因為我并不比別人更好殺戳;我很希望能看到有既能維護社會又能保護罪犯(而不是將罪犯處死)的好辦法，
But I say it again, these safeguards must really meet, not evade or postpone, the difficulties I am about to describe.
但我要重申，這些辦法必須能切實解決我將要談到的一些問題，而不能對此回避或拖延。
Let me add before I begin that I shall probably not answer any more letters on this arousing subject.
在開始之前我還要補充說明一句：我或許再不會答復有關這個使人們反應強烈的問題的任何來信。
If this printed exposition does not do justice to my cause, it is not likely that Ican do better in the hurry of private correspondence.
如果這篇公開發表的文章還不能證明我的論點的話，那么，匆匆往復的私人信函也不可能起什么作用。
