Lincoln also needed the support of the four slave states that had not left the Union: Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland and Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Those who profess to love the Union are not so anxious to preserve slavery, while those who are opposed to the war acknowledge in all their actions that its continuance will put an end to this accursed system.

那些宣称热爱联邦的人,并不急着想保存奴隶制,同时那些反战的人,他们以行动昭告天下,战争会持续到这种被人唾骂的制度结束

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This year, no, not really. Um, years past, I was in a Columbia Political Union,

今年没有，但是去年，我参加了哥伦比亚政治联盟，

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If you are not for force, and not for dissolving the Union, there only remains some kind of compromise.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But that's even not right here in Union Square.

但那甚至不在联合广场这边。

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He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

In Union Square, I'm not exactly sure.

联合广场周围，不太好说。

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The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Hitler could not strengthen his forces in North Africa and Italy, because Germany also was fighting hard in the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"There were severe weather problems, not just in Russia but also in some of the other former Soviet Union countries."

VOA: special.2010.12.07

If the Union force attacked before Stonewall Jackson got into position, Lee could not possibly hold it back.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The old general who commanded the Union forces, Winfield Scott,did not want to rush his men into battle.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

"I therefore believe that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is not broken.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

But in Washington the rating system is not governed by the labor contract with the teachers union.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

Still,the line moved forward. A few Confederates reached the Union line, but not enough to seize it.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

But he was not afraid of it. He said: "Our separation from the old Union is complete.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

"It was not difficult to agree between us that neither party is in favor of handing any more powers to the European Union."

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Lincoln said no state had a legal right to secede the Union could not be broken.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Many Americans in northern states did not support the war policies of Union President Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

For political reasons, the proclamation did not free slaves in the states that supported the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Grant did not look like a great military leader, the chief of all Union armies.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

If you are not for it, a second way is to give up the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Even with its victories and technologies,however, the Confederacy could not stop the Union navy.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The Union victory might not have been possible without the successes of its navy.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

There were not enough ships in the Union navy to blockade all of it.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The president will soon offer some idea of how much his plans have or have not changed when he gives his State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

Robert E.Lee could not understand why the Union force had returned to Chancellorsville.

VOA: special.2009.10.15