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An election was held. Hundreds of men poured over the boundary of Missouri, outvoted the free-soil settlers in Kansas, and then went home. The territorial legislature, chosen in this way, adopted the laws of Missouri, slave code and all, as the laws of Kansas. It seemed as if Kansas were lost to freedom.
人們舉行了一次地方選舉，數(shù)以百計的人沖過密蘇里邊界，他們以多數(shù)票擊敗在堪薩斯自由民土地上的殖民地居民，然后返回自己的家園。如此選出的地方立法機(jī)關(guān)通過了密蘇里的法律--奴隸法規(guī)和所有其他法律，把這些法律作為堪薩斯的法律。看起來堪薩斯似乎已經(jīng)無自由可言。
354. The Topeka Convention.
354．"托皮卡會議"
The free-state voters now held a convention at Topeka. They drew up a constitution and applied to Congress for admission to the Union as the free state of Kansas. The free-state men and the slave-state men each elected a Delegate to Congress. The House of Representatives now took the matter up and appointed a committee of investigation. The committee reported in favor of the free-state men, and the House voted to admit Kansas as a free state. But the Senate would not consent to anything of the kind. The contest in Kansas went on and became more bitter every month.
此時，來自各個自由民州的投票者在托皮卡召開會議，他們起草一份章程向國會申請接受堪薩斯為一個沒有奴隸制的州，來自自由民州和有奴隸州的雙方分別選出一個參加國會的代表。這時候，眾議院接受這件事并任命一個調(diào)查委員會。這個委員會在報告中支持自由民州的人，眾議院投票決定接受堪薩斯為一個自由民州，但是，參議院不會同意這種事，關(guān)于堪薩斯的紛爭還要繼續(xù)，而且每個月都變得比以前更加激烈。
355. The Republican Party.
355．共和黨--堪薩斯
The most important result of the Kansas-Nebraska fight was the formation of the Republican party. It was made up of men from all the other parties who agreed in opposing Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska policy. Slowly they began to think of themselves as a party and to adopt the name of the old party of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe- Republican.
內(nèi)布拉斯加之爭最重要的結(jié)果是形成共和黨，這個黨派由來自所有其他黨派中反對道格拉斯堪薩斯-內(nèi)布拉斯加政策的人組成，他們慢慢開始覺得自己是一個黨派，并選擇了杰斐遜、麥迪遜和門羅這些人過去所屬的黨派的名稱--共和黨。
