In January, riding high after selling a tax rise to the electorate that returned the state to surplus, Mr Brown unilaterally declared the prison emergency over.

1月，布朗先生比较高兴得说服了选民增税使得加州经济有所盈余，单方面宣布了监狱危机的结束。

But others felt the Constitution was overreaching and that more centralized authority would return the states to the sort of tyranny they had just escaped.

但其他人则认为宪法的权力过大，更加集中的权力将使各州回到他们刚刚摆脱的那种暴政。

On the 22d,the immortal document was given to the world announcing that, unless the states in arms returned to the union by January 1,1863,the fatal blow at their " peculiar institution" would be delivered.

22 日，这份不朽的文件向全世界宣布，除非参战的各州在 1863 年 1 月 1 日之前重返联邦， 否则将对其“特殊机构” 造成致命打击。