If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

-- Caleb Cushing 卡莱布库欣

如果我们有任何合理的理由假定我们有权为该地区的奴隶利益立法，那么你就不能拒绝接受请愿书，而把对这个问题的调查放在门外。

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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

圣经是一个极端支持奴隶制的文件。在南北战争中，奴隶主们将圣经高举过头，并为其正名。

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I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

我来自一个退伍军人并不富裕的地区。

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I will die a slave of principles not men.

我将为原则而死，而不是为人而死。

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