林肯签署《解放宣言》

President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation

1．EmancipationProclamation：【美史】《解放宣言》，美国总统林肯于1862年9月颁布，规定自1863年1月1日起。美国各州奴隶应当被视作自由人。2．constituent：选举人，选民。3．他（林肯）一直以来都反对奴隶制，但却认为宪法界定给他的总统职权并未赋予他废除奴隶制的权力。abolish：彻底废除（法律、制度、习俗等）。

＂If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.＂ This is what Abraham Lincoln stated in a letter to a constituent2 in 1864. He had always been against slavery but believed that his presidential powers as defined by the Constitution did not give him the authority to abolish it.3 In early 1862, Lincoln tried and failed to develop an alternative approach： an effort to free the salves of the Border States by buying out their masters.4