时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:名人认知系列 Who Was


英语课

Once again Lincoln asked Douglas to debate him. This time, Douglas had to accept. In 1858, seven debates were held in different towns all over Illinois. The main issue was slavery. People poured in from neighboring states to listen. The whole country followed the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the newspapers. Reporters wrote down every word each man said.

Lincoln and Douglas made comical opponents. Douglas was short, round, and dignified 1. His nickname was “The Little Giant” because he dressed elegantly and had a rich, deep voice. Lincoln was tall, thin, and awkward. He still dressed like a farmer, and had a high, thin voice. Douglas traveled to the debates in a private carriage. Lincoln rode the train with everyone else, joking and chatting. But both men were very skilled speakers.

People disagreed about who had won the debates. And Lincoln lost the Senate election again. But he had become famous. He was invited to lecture on slavery in New York City. He won over the huge crowd with his passion and simple, logical arguments. This was his first public appearance on the east coast, the center of political power in the United States.

While Lincoln was making a name for himself, the country was moving toward a crisis. States in the South talked about leaving the United States to form their own country. President Buchanan was a weak leader who didn’t know how to control the South. He couldn’t even keep the support of his own party. In 1860, the Democratic Party could not agree on whom to support for president. They were split between Stephen Douglas and another candidate.

LINCOLN’S VIEWS ON BLACK PEOPLE

ALTHOUGH LINCOLN DID NOT THINK BLACKS SHOULD BE SLAVES, HE DID NOT SUPPORT COMPLETE EQUALITY FOR THEM, EITHER. HE DID NOT THINK THE TWO RACES COULD EVER LIVE TOGETHER COMFORTABLY. SO HE SUGGESTED THAT FREED SLAVES SHOULD BE SENT TO A COLONY SOMEWHERE. IT TOOK HIM YEARS TO REALIZE THAT MOST BLACKS DIDN’T WANT TO MOVE TO A NEW COUNTRY—THEY WANTED RIGHTS In THEIR OWN COUNTRY. OF COURSE LINCOLN DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE. LATER, WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BROUGHT HIM INTO CONTACT WITH THEM, HE BECAME MORE OPEN-MINDED. THE NEW YEAR’S DAY PARTY THE LINCOLNS GAVE In 1864 WAS THE FIRST EVENT EVER AT WHICH BLACKS WERE GUESTS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

The Republican Party chose Lincoln as their candidate for president. They called him “the rail candidate” because he had split rails as a boy. The name told people that he was an ordinary, hardworking man just like them. He did very little campaigning. He didn’t really expect to win. On the night of the election, Lincoln and his fellow Republicans crowded into the state capitol. News about the election kept coming in by telegraph. At two A.M. the result was certain. Because the Democratic Party was divided between two candidates, Lincoln had won more votes than any other candidate. Mary was thrilled—she had always wanted to be the wife of a president. But Lincoln could not sleep. “I then felt as I never had before the responsibility that was upon me,” he said.

He was an unlikely president. He’d had only one year of school.

He had almost no experience in national government. He was not a war hero. He’d spent his whole life in pioneer towns. He’d been defeated every time he ran for the Senate. He didn’t even know exactly what a president did. And now, suddenly, he was the sixteenth president of the United States.

During the campaign, an eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell had written to him. She said she thought he’d look more like a president if he had a beard.

So now he grew one.



a.可敬的,高贵的
  • Throughout his trial he maintained a dignified silence. 在整个审讯过程中,他始终沉默以保持尊严。
  • He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend. 他总是在女友面前摆出这种庄严的姿态。
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AAP (analyst assistance program)
air operating electric light
airbrushed
albizzin
amberized
antiartillery
autobike
balancing procedure
basal cell carcinoma of face
bearing holder
Bogatyrëvo
boot-leg
British Accounting Association
Brocard point
bucephala islandicas
Camellia parafurfuracea
carbon circuit breaker
centrifugal tar extractor
cinnabar moths
computer literacies
creepage distance
cushioned-seat coach
Darcy law of resistance
denomination currency
diddlysquats
discretionary wiring machine
double break contact
ductile fracture
dynamic balance test
e and m leads
ectopocystis
esophageal sarcoma
feareth
filsting
for-loop block
French type machinist's hammer
full-point
fuselis
hexachaetous
high frequency feeder
home monitoring
honeybush
impracticalities
intrinsicates
jeans' radiation law
kerb-crawlers
Kopites
Kārvāndar, Rūdkhāneh-ye
liability to outsiders
Lumsum
made mountains of molehills
magnetic isoanomalous line
malakoplakia of genitourinary system
male - pattern baldness
Mboula
microdosimetricspectra
microfilariae
Mitsuze-tōge
nasty-looking
non-contact magnetic recording
non-hazardous area
nonsister chromatids
officery
on all sides
opercular fold
perseverances
Piliophen
piquant sauce
Plexus venosus vesicalis
postdiction
precision thermometer
Puccinia scleriae
pulsus aequalis
radio frequency energy
rag-and-bone
reductios
retractable bit
reviviscible
rigger brush
ringing generator
sambas
SearchMash
sequential testing
single-phase three wire system
skandas
solar spectrum
songvid
spatial disequilibrium
squarenesses
stared out
Tar River
td.
think ... up
transabled
translation operation
tubularian
u-shaped adapter
upthrust bearing
vitamin K-1
VSIP
wall gecko
water-rot