was the most rapid third-party political coalition movement

最迅速的第三党派联盟运动
in all of American history;

在整个美国历史上最快的
and if you want a prototype for any possibility of that kind,

如果找其此类运动的起源
any other time in our political history, this is it.

那这就是我们政治史上的原型
The republican party, brand new--not six months old--

这个不足六个月历史的崭新的共和党
Will elect 100 people to the house of representatives

将要在1854年的秋季选举时
in the fall elections of 1854,

选举出一百个众议院的议员
and they will begin to draw together a remarkable coalition.

他们还要进行一次盛大的集会
They're going to draw first a whole lot of old whigs,

计划吸引一大部分的老辉格党员
Northern whigs in particular, who don't have any home anymore.

特别是那些已经无所归宿的北方辉格党
This is the old whig party of Henry Clay,

他们是老牌的亨利·克莱辉格党
but it's also the old whig party that had a reformist element to it.

但是还有着一些改革的力量