How does this country end up being a Republic, the Third Republic, which has been castigated because it seemed to fumble along?
这个国家是怎么成为一个共和国的，即第三共和国，因为它似乎是在摸索着前进而被谴责？
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Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.