Well Pete, you see, there was this free labor system and this slave labor system," blah-blah blah-blah.

皮特你知道,当时北方是自由劳动制,而南方是奴役劳动制",等等,等等

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He called the North a, quote, "Happy state of mediocrity, a hardy race of free, independent republicans."

他说北方是,"快乐的平庸之地,这里住着一群自由独立的共和主义者"

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The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.

北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同

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Less than one percent, less than one percent of the real and personal property, in both South and North by the 1850s, was held by approximately fifty percent of free adult males.

不到百分之一,不到百分之一的不动产和动产,在十九世纪五十年代的南方和北方一样,由大约百分之五十的自由成年男性持有

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