It passed in the Senate only because two men from slave states voted for it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

So, therefore, we must take up, he suggests, an ascetic path,engaging only, as he says, in "those works" that are fit "for such men as come proud, open-eyed" and laughing to the tomb.

因此我们必须采取，如他所说，一条美学的道路，这些作品只适合于,对那些骄傲的、睁着眼笑嘻嘻“,走向坟墓的人。

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He said the Union of states was permanent -- that the men who built the Union did not do so only for themselves, but for all future Americans.

VOA: special.2009.03.19