Here was the astonishing spectacle of half a nation attempting, at the point of bayonet, to force upon the other half the rule of negroes, many of them scarcely one generation out of the African jungles.

• 这儿是一副令人触目惊心的景象：半个民族正企图用刺刀强迫另半个民族接受黑人的统治，而这些黑人中有许多从非洲丛林中出来还不到一代人的时间呢。