a daughter who wants to marry an Irishman,

女儿想和一个爱尔兰人结婚
or, most of all,

或者关注最多的问题是
all those Catholics arriving in New York City and Philadelphia.

来到纽约城和费城的那些天主教徒
Huge numbers of Irish catholics--

大量爱尔兰天主教徒
they're going to Catholicize America,

要把美国变成一个天主教国家了
they're going to turn every small outhouse into a confessional.

他们要把所有户外厕所都变成告解所
We laugh today, it's easy to laugh at this,

今天我们会嘲笑这个想法嘲笑很容易
but nativism caught hold in the early 1850s--

但十九世纪五十年代初本土主义根深蒂固
more on this a bit later with the breakup of the American party system

十九世纪五十年代美国党派制度崩溃之后
as we take it through the 1850s.

这个观念更加的深入人心
But a lot of Americans were really worried about those Catholics.

但很多美国人真的担心那些天主教徒
But the Kansas-Nebraska Act--

但堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案