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The Republican Party started under the premise that slavery should not be expanded.
共和党建立的 前提即相信奴隶制不应该扩大
They weren't abolitionists per se, some of them were,
他们本质上并非废奴主义者 其中一些是
but many of them were not abolitionists,they were anti-slavery men.
但是许多人不是废奴主义者 他们是反对奴隶制者
And what that meant was that they expected slavery to die a natural death
这意味着他们期待奴隶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.
为了达到这一目的 为了让这一切发生 必须遏制奴隶制
And so the idea was you don't let it expand into the Western Territories.
因此他们的想法是不希望让奴隶制扩大到西部地区
This new coalition is a coalition of Northerners
这一新的联盟是北方人的联盟
who are absolute believers in this idea of a free-labour American dream,
他们绝对相信 自由劳动的美国梦
of their right to go West and get themselves 20 acres of land somewhere,
在西部拓荒的权利 可以在某个地方获得土地 二十英亩
or 40 acres, or whatever they could get and not have to compete with the slave labour system.
或者四十英亩 或者他们能够获得的一切 还有不必和奴隶劳动体系竞争
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 都在一个问题上 阻止
the expansion of slavery into the West,or what the Republicans called the free soil persuasion.
奴隶制向西部扩张 用共和党的话说就是自由土地的信念问题
The Republican Party, in which Abraham Lincoln fast became a leading light,
共和党 亚伯拉罕很快成为其中的重要人物
regarded the expansion of slavery as a direct threat to their free soil ideology.
将奴隶制的扩张视为自身自由土地信条的直接威胁
But although the enemy of slavery, they were no friend of the slave.
尽管是奴隶制的敌人 他们绝非奴隶之友
You could be anti-slavery AND anti-black.
你可以既发对奴隶制也反对黑人
You could be anti-slavery and not want black people around.
你可以反对奴隶制同时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."
反对奴隶制热情中的很大一部分 就是 我们不想和他们生活在一起
Partly, it was,We don't want them around because they're alien people, they're different,
部分在于 我们不想和他们生活在一起 因为他们是外国人 他们是不一样的
they're inferior,et cetera, et cetera,
他们是劣等的 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 我们不想和他们生活在一起 他们没有报酬 不利于我们的工资提高
