In the North, people mourned. One man wrote: "The events of the last month or two have done more to build northern opposition to slavery than anything which has ever happened before, than all the anti-slavery pamphlets and books that have ever been written."

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It's probably more oligarchic or aristocratic, but the point is this is something we haven't heard of ever before.

它很有可能更像寡头制或者贵族制,但是它的重要意义在于,它开创了历史的新纪元

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