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Does Lincoln deserve his reputation as the Great Emancipator or was the Emancipation Proclamation as much an act of war as an act of mercy,
林肯的伟大解放者的称号真的与实际相符吗 或者说 奴隶解放宣言是出于战争的原因更多一些
a desperate manoeuvre motivated in large part by the failure of Lincoln to defeat the Confederate Armies?
是否在很大程度上 是因为林肯在击退南方联盟军队失败后 而不得不采取的孤注一掷的策略
It's a war measure, it's a military measure, that's how it is justified.
我们只能说 这是一个战争策略 这是一个军事策略
That's the only way it can be justified.
我们只能这么定义
There is nothing in the Constitution that enables the President to just decree the abolition of slavery,
宪法里没有任何规定 赋予总统颁布废除奴隶制度的法令的权利
what Lincoln rests an is his role as Commander in Chief of the Army.
林肯的头衔仅仅是北方联邦军队总司令一职
Compare it to the Declaration of Independence, which begins with this wonderful preamble about the rights of mankind.
将之与独立宣言相比较 独立宣言的开篇就是无与伦比的 有关人权的序文
There's nothing like that, this is a military order.
解放宣言根本无法与之相提并论 这只是一个军事命令
It contains no soaring rhetoric whatsoever, which Lincoln was capable of.
这里面没有任何华丽辞藻 也说明林肯的权力只此而已
Only at the suggestion of Secretary of the Treasury Chase does it end with a statement, "This is an act of justice as well as of military necessity."
只有在财政部部长蔡司的建议下 才使得解放宣言以 这是一个正义的行为 也是一项军事需要来结尾
Like the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation has become one of America's sacred texts and it places Lincoln at the centre of the story.
同独立宣言一样 奴隶解放宣言也成为了美国具有神圣意义的文件之一 它也将林肯推向了故事的主角位置
But Emancipation was a process that Lincoln did not begin and was never able to control.
是事实上 奴隶解放运动并不是由林肯发起的 而且他也没有能力掌控运动的进展情况
To be perfectly frank, we give him too much credit for it.
非常坦率的说 我们给予了他太多名不副实的荣耀
He caught up with the process of Emancipation as much as he made the personal decision to free the slaves.
他只是恰好赶上了解放奴隶运动的时机 而不是他主观上决定要解放奴隶
Emancipation comes about in 1862, and especially in 1863,
奴隶解放运动从1862年开始 在1863年达到了一个高潮
in the midst of this war out of the process of its escalation.
这是因为战争加剧了奴隶解放运动的升级
