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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.
在美国，至少有25个州级协会、一家全国性协会以及一系列教派在为此目的而努力，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,
如此之多的英才贤士群起支持一项善意的提议，当然会使任何敌对的一方望而却步。
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;
为了阐明我的观点(尽管我的观点目前几乎不得人心)，我得申明我的结论是可以争辩的，
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.
也就是说，我仍愿意服从真理，但条件是首先必须澄清废除派论点中的某些谬误和强词夺理之言;这些问题必须解决，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,
若能做到这些，我当然非常高兴。这不仅是因为看到无懈可击的事实乃一件乐事，
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.
而且是因为我并不比别人更好杀戳;我很希望能看到有既能维护社会又能保护罪犯(而不是将罪犯处死)的好办法，
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，这些办法必须能切实解决我将要谈到的一些问题，而不能对此回避或拖延。
Let me add before I begin that I shall probably not answer any more letters on this arousing subject.
在开始之前我还要补充说明一句：我或许再不会答复有关这个使人们反应强烈的问题的任何来信。
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.
如果这篇公开发表的文章还不能证明我的论点的话，那么，匆匆往复的私人信函也不可能起什么作用。
