He wanted to learn about the plants and animals of the new territory.

他想要了解新领土中的动植物。

Southerners -- like all other Americans -- had a right to settle in the new territory.

和其他所有美国人一样，南方人有权在新的领土上定居。

After the US took over, more and more Americans from the mainland began moving to the new Hawaiian territory.

美国接管夏威夷后，越来越多的美国人开始从美国本土迁移到新的夏威夷领地。

The question was this: did Congress have the power to control or even ban slavery in the new territories?

国会有权控制甚至禁止在新领地的沿用奴隶制吗？

On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

有关新领地的奴隶制问题，卡斯认为应该由该地区的人民作出决定。

Once the land was gathered, whether conquered, inherited, or purchased, the new territory became, like everything else, the property of the Grand Prince.

一旦获得了土地，无论是征服得来还是继承或购买得来，新的领土，像其他一切事物一样，成为大公的财产。

Senator John Clayton of Delaware proposed to the Senate that it name a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

特拉华州参议员约翰·克莱顿向参议院提议，成立一个特别委员会来讨论新领地的奴隶制问题。

The new territories secured by the treaty of peace with Mexico contained the promise of at least three more.

与墨西哥签订和平条约获得的新领土包含至少三个以上的承诺。

Southerners, like any other Americans, had a right to settle in the new territory.

南方人和其他美国人一样， 有权在新领土定居。

In eighteen forty-eight, while James Polk was president, there was a great constitutional debate in the United States. It arose over slavery in the new territories.

1848年，詹姆斯·波尔克担任总统时，美国发生了一场规模壮大的宪法辩论，它起源于新领地的奴隶制。

Louis before moving on to the more remote parts of the new territory of the United States.

在前往美国新领土更偏远的地区之前。

So, I taught for a semester in Hong Kong, and we'd go hiking in the new territories.

- 所以，我在香港教了一个学期，我们会去新界远足。

Eventual admission to the union on an equal footing with the original states was promised to the new territories.

最终向新领土承诺与原始州平等地加入联邦。

It appeared again after the Mexican war when the question of slavery in the new territories was raised.

墨西哥战争后，当新领土的奴隶制问题被提出时，它又出现了。

He asked Congress for immediate permission to do that. But the question of slavery delayed quick congressional action. Should the new territories be opened or closed to slavery.

他请求国会立即进行批准，但是奴隶制问题使国会无法快速行动。新领地是否应该允许或禁止蓄奴制。

The platform declared that slavery was an institution of the states, not the nation. It said Congress had no right to help spread slavery by permitting it in the new western territories.

这份纲领宣布奴隶制是国家制度，而不是各州的制度，它指出国会无权经由允许奴隶制在新的西部地区传播来扩大其适用范围。

By saying that half of the new territories should allow slavery while half prohibit it, you position the two viewpoints, pro-slavery and anti-slavery, as equally valid.

你说一半新界允许奴隶制， 一半禁止奴隶制，你把支持奴隶制和反对奴隶制这两种观点定位为同样有效。

Seward said he opposed any compromise with the South. He said he did not want slavery in the new western territories. And he urged a national policy to start ending slavery everywhere -- peacefully.

西沃德说他反对向南方妥协，他不希望西部新的领地上有奴隶制存在。他敦促制定一项国家政策，以和平的方式结束各地的奴隶制。

It demanded protection against the agitators, the enforcement of its rights in the case of runaway slaves, and equal privileges for slavery in the new territories.

它要求保护免受煽动者的侵害，在奴隶逃跑的情况下强制执行其权利， 并在新领土上为奴隶制提供平等的特权。

The United States faced a deep national crisis in eighteen fifty. That crisis threatened to split the nation in two. It began over the issue of slavery in the new territories of California and Mexico.

1850年，美国遭遇严重的国家危机，这场危机俨然要把国家一分为二，其源头是加利福尼亚和墨西哥新领地上的奴隶制问题。