Abraham Lincoln was the rail- splitter.

亚伯拉罕·林肯曾是劈木头做栅栏的“劈柴工”。

The " rail splitter" from Illinois united the nationalism of Hamilton with the democracy of Jefferson, and his appeal was clothed in the simple language of the people, not in the sonorous rhetoric which Webster learned in the schools.

来自伊利诺斯州的“铁路分裂者” 将汉密尔顿的民族主义与杰斐逊的民主结合起来，他的呼吁披上了人民的简单语言， 而不是韦伯斯特在学校学到的响亮的修辞。