ripon, wisconsin; jackson, michigan, and others

里彭威斯康星杰克逊密歇根等
that all claim to be the site of the birth of the republican party.

都声称自己是共和党的诞生地
And they all have their little monuments or their plaques

而且他们都有一些纪念碑和一些标志
in town squares and parks to say

在公园或者是广场
they were the place where the first republican party meeting was held.

来证明是第一次共和党会议召开的地方
But the republican party was really born amidst

但是共和党的确诞生在
hundreds of meetings across the north,

北方数以百计的的会议当中
to discuss the kansas-nebraska act,

会议讨论堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法
To react to it, to figure out some way to politically resist it.

讨论如何从政治上去抵制它
That "hell of a storm: That Stephen Douglas had predicted,

斯蒂芬·道格拉斯预测到的地狱风暴
is exactly what happened, but he didn't have any clue

像他预测的一样发生了
the direction or the ferocity of the political storm

但他却对引发这场政治风暴的起因