今年三月二十六日是十九世纪美国最伟大的民主诗人、世界典范的第一个美国作家惠特曼(1819—1892)逝世九十周年。在缅怀这位杰出的诗人时读一下他的内战时期的遗作,会感到格外深切。一八六一年四月掀起的这场战争,是美国资产阶级统治的北美各州与奴隶主的南部各州之间的内战,旨在推翻南方奴隶主在华盛顿的统治地位、废除奴隶制度。历经四年奋战,终于粉碎了奴隶主叛乱,解放了黑人,维护了联邦的统一,为美国资本主义的发展开辟了广阔的道路。惠特曼在战前属于废奴主义激进派;内战期间始终站在反对南 March 26 this year marks the 90th anniversary of the death of Whitman (1819-1892), the nation’s first great American democracy poet in the nineteenth century. In memory of this distinguished poet read the remains of his civil war, will be particularly profound. The war started in April 1861 was a civil war between the bourgeois-dominated states of North America and the southern states of the slave-owners, aiming to overthrow the southern slave-owners’ rule in Washington and abolish the slave system. After four years of hard work, it finally smashed the insurrection of the slave-owners, liberated the blacks and upheld the federal unification, opening up a vast road for the development of U.S. capitalism. Whitman belonged to the abolitionist radical before the war; he always stood against the South during the civil war