The ten other slave states soon follow.

其他十个蓄奴州旋即效仿。

He wrote that the North was too aggressive toward the South and should stop interfering in the slave states.

布坎南写道，北方对南方过于咄咄逼人，应该停止干涉实施奴隶制的各州。

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

特拉华州、肯塔基州、马里兰州和密苏里州。

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

特拉华州、肯塔基州、马里兰州和密苏里州。

Missouri had permission to enter the Union as a slave state.

密苏里州获准作为蓄奴州加入联邦。

In all the fifteen slave states the variety of opinion was marked.

在所有十五个蓄奴州中，意见的多样性是显而易见的。

As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.

我们在上期节目中讲到，奴隶制支持者没能让国会通过使堪萨斯成为奴隶制州的法案。

11 slave states in the south, giving them equal representation in the Senate.

南部有11个蓄奴州，赋予它们在参议院的平等代表权。

Texas, it was said, could be divided into four slave states.

据说得克萨斯可以分为四个蓄奴州。

Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.

入主白宫之后的 1803 年，杰弗逊通过购买路易斯安那州扩大了奴隶制度，这片土地后来被划分为了 13个州，其中包括 3个蓄奴州。

In accordance with a well-established custom, a free state was admitted to the union to balance a slave state.

——按照既定的惯例，一个自由州加入联邦以平衡奴隶州。

Members of Congress feared that if Missouri were accepted as a slave state, pro-slavery states would outnumber free ones.

国会议员担心，如果密苏里州被接受为蓄奴州，支持蓄奴的州的数量将超过自由州。

Of these, five were called from slave states and four from free states.

其中，五名来自蓄奴州，四名来自自由州。

The addition of Texas as a slave state would upset the delicate balance of power, kept between slave states and free states since the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

德克萨斯加入奴隶制州将打破自1820年密苏里妥协案以来奴隶州和自由州之间微妙的权力平衡。

In the past, each time a slave state was admitted to the Union, a free state had also been admitted.

过去， 每次一个蓄奴州被接纳加入联邦， 一个自由州也被接纳。

Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they issued a declaration of independence signed mainly by Americans from the slave states.

他们追随祖先的脚步，发表了主要由蓄奴州的美国人签署的独立宣言。

He added that Congress would not accept Kansas as a slave state, or a free state, until the people had voted on the question of slavery.

他还补充道，除非堪萨斯人民对奴隶制问题进行投票，否则国会不会接受堪萨斯作为奴隶制州或自由州。

Fremont could not expect to win any votes in the slave states of the South. He would have to get all of his support in the North.

弗里蒙特无法寄希望于在南方实行奴隶制的各州赢得任何选票，他必须得到北方的所有支持。

He believed there might be civil war if he rejected the compromise. So Monroe signed the bill. Missouri had permission to enter the Union as a slave state.

他认为如果他拒绝妥协， 可能会发生内战。 所以梦露签署了法案。 密苏里州获准作为蓄奴州加入联邦。

Thus, as each new free soil state knocked for admission into the union, the South could demand as the price of its consent a new slave state.

因此， 当每个新的自由土地州敲门加入联邦时，南方可以要求一个新的蓄奴州作为其同意的代价。