Instead, they violently crush social movements or work to discredit their message.

相反，他们暴力镇压社会运动或努力诋毁他们的信息。

In the medium term, they were less successful because their movement was violently crushed by the British state and by the Crown and by the industrialists who the crown was assisting.

从中期来看，他们不太成功，因为他们的运动遭到了英国政府、皇室以及皇室援助的实业家的猛烈镇压。

It is not surprising, therefore, that President Pierce, surrounded in his cabinet by strong Southern sympathizers, could promise to put an end to slavery agitation and to crush the abolition movement in the bud.

因此，毫不奇怪，皮尔斯总统在他的内阁中被强烈的南方同情者包围着，他可以承诺结束奴隶制鼓动并将废奴运动扼杀在萌芽状态。