Andrew Reeder was governor of a bitterly divided territory. He wanted to warn President Pierce about what was happening.

安德鲁·里德身为一个分裂州的州长。他很想提醒总统皮尔斯这里所发生的事情。

All of these men had strong ideas about the future of the United States. President Pierce found it difficult to control them.

所有这些人对美国的未来都有着坚定的看法，总统皮尔斯发现很难驾驭他们。

National issues presented President Pierce with more difficult decisions. The Compromise of eighteen fifty had settled the dispute over slavery in the western territories.

国家事务使总统皮尔斯更难做出决定。1850年折衷法案解决了西部领地的奴隶制争端。

President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet. This had not worked. It had driven the different party groups farther apart.

总统皮尔斯曾试图通过在内阁中给每个团体派一名代表，来实现党内团结。但这种做法没有生效。它还拉大了不同政党团体之间的距离。

President Franklin Pierce decided he should make someone else governor of Utah. The man he chose, however, did not want the job. Instead, he urged the president to let Brigham Young remain. President Pierce agreed.

总统富兰克林·皮尔斯决定让其他人担任犹他州州长。然而，他选定的那个人并不想做这份工作。相反，他敦促总统恢复杨百翰的职务。总统皮尔斯同意了。

It is not surprising, therefore, that President Pierce, surrounded in his cabinet by strong Southern sympathizers, could promise to put an end to slavery agitation and to crush the abolition movement in the bud.

因此，毫不奇怪，皮尔斯总统在他的内阁中被强烈的南方同情者包围着，他可以承诺结束奴隶制鼓动并将废奴运动扼杀在萌芽状态。