Certainly we know what happened once he was assassinated: Reconstruction was administered punitively and then abandoned, leaving the issue of racial equality to dangle for another century.

• 一旦他被暗杀，我们无疑地是知道会发生什么的：南方各州的重建会被惩罚性地执行，然后重建被抛弃，使得创建种族平等的问题被推到另一个世纪。