In these private talks, Brown said it was too late to settle the slave question through politics or any other peaceful way.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

In a letter in late 1861 from the front, "Will indeed settle the question, for some years at least, as to whether union or secession, the Constitution or rebellion, shall triumph.

在一封1861年年底来自前线的信中,"会解决问题,但至少需要数年,不管是联合还是独立,宪法抑或是起义,终将有一方胜利

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I can't settle the question.

这个问题我无法解决。

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He said the Senate was a political body that was being asked to settle a political question.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The question would have been what will happen if I go and try to settle a colony at the place which I will call Syracuse that's what I've been describing on the southeastern coast of Sicily.

人们提得问题可能会是,如果我去,锡拉库萨建立殖民地,会发生什么事情,这就是我刚才描述过的,发生在西西里东南岸的事

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