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
that this would cause.

一无所知
To so many northerners now,

对于许多北方人
who believed--for whom the american dream was mobility in the west,

把梦想寄托在美国西部
availability of cheap if not free Land in the west

得到即使不是免费至少也很廉价的土地
the possibility of the small farmer, the small mechanic,

成为一个小农场主一个工程师
Moving west and getting land in a society without slaves

在自由的社会获得一片土地的理想
Now seemed to be completely thrown up in the air,

现在就将化为乌有了
If not denied.

如果不站起来反抗的话
I don't know what to really compare it to today, that might shock people.

我找不到合适的比喻来诠释它给人的震惊
Something you assumed was just going to be there

一件你期待已久将要到来的事物