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364. The States. 364．各州 As it was with the cities so it was with the statesthe North had grown beyond the South. 在发展方面各个州的情况一如各个城市北方的发展超过南方。 In 1790 Virginia had as many inhabitants as the s

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365. City Life. 365．城市生活 In the old days the large towns were just like the small towns except that they were larger. 除了面积较大，过去较大的城镇就像今天的小城镇， Life in them was just about the same as in the small

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Then the traveler had to alight, get something to eat, and see his baggage placed on another train. 旅客不得不下车吃东西并查看他们在另一节车厢上的行李。 Still, with all its discomforts, traveling in the worst of cars was bet

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368. Progress of Invention. 368．发明方面的进展 The electric telegraph was now in common use. 此时电报已经投入日常使用， It enabled the newspapers to tell the people what was going on as they never had done before. 它使得报纸可

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370. The Democratic Nominations. 370．民主党的提名 The Democratic convention met at Charleston, South Carolina. 民主党在南卡罗莱纳州的查理斯顿召开会议， It was soon evident that the Northern Democrats and the Southern Democ

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He carried every Northern state except Missouri and New Jersey. 除了密苏里州和新泽西州，林肯获得了所有北方各个州的选票， He received one hundred and eighty electoral notes. 他获得180张选票； Breckenridge carried eve

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The Southern leaders knew all these things. 南方人知道这些事， But they made up their minds that now the time had come to secede from the Union and to establish a Southern Confederacy. 但他们坚信已经到了脱离联邦建立南方同盟的

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375. The Crittenden Compromise Plan. 375．科里滕登折中计划 Many men hoped that even now secession might be stopped by some compromise. 许多人希望到了这个地步还可以通过妥协来阻止退出联邦的行为。 President Buchanan

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An election was held. Hundreds of men poured over the boundary of Missouri, outvoted the free-soil settlers in Kansas, and then went home. 人们举行了一次地方选举，数以百计的人冲过密苏里边界，他们以多数票击败在堪萨斯

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356. Buchanan elected President, 1856. 356．布坎南当选为总统（1856年） The Whigs and the Know-Nothings nominated Millard Fillmore for President and said nothing about slavery. 辉格党和美国本土党提名米勒德菲尔莫尔为总统，

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The next morning Grant attacked in his turn and slowly but surely pushed the Confederates off the field. 第二天早晨他反攻南方军，当然，他击退了南方军。 Halleck then united Grant's, Buell's, and Pope's armies and captured Corint

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When the time came to run the boundary line, the American and Mexican commissioners could not agree. 但在谈及国界时，双方的外交官没有达成一致， So the United States paid ten million dollars more and received an additional strip o

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339. The Oregon Treaty, 1846. 339．俄勒冈条约（1846年） The matter was now taken up in earnest. 此时到了认真解决这个问题的时候， All Oregon or none, Fifty-four forty or fight, became popular cries. 全占或放弃，只有一个

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Chapter 33 第33章 The compromise of 1850 1850年的折中法案 340. The Wilmot Proviso, 1846. 340．韦幕特但书（1846年） What should be done with Oregon and with the immense territory received from Mexico? 怎样处理俄勒冈及从墨西哥

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He was in favor of squatter sovereignty, that is, allowing the people of each territory to have slavery or not as they chose. 他赞同主权自由，即允许各地对是否拥有奴隶制做出自己的选择。 The Whig candidate was General Taylo

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At first people paid little attention to them. 开始时人们不太关注这些传言， But when President Polk said that gold had been found, people began to think that it must be true. 但当珀尔卡总统说找到黄金时，人们开始相信果

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Many Northerners, who loved the Union, thought that slavery should be confined to the states where it existed. 许多热爱联邦的北方人认为奴隶制应该被限制到已经有奴隶制的州， They thought that slavery should not be permitte

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For example, the Southerners were to permit the admission of California as a free state, and to consent to the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. 例如，南方人要允许加利福尼亚作为一个自由州加入联邦，并同

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The law of 1850 gave the enforcement of the act to United States officials. 1850年的法律将强制执行这个法案的权力交给美国政府官员， The agents of slave owners claimed many persons as fugitives. 奴隶主代表们宣称许多人都