Free-soil Democrats, —Jacksonian farmers and mechanics, —labor reformers, and political leaders, like Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, kept up the agitation in season and out.

自由土地民主党人——杰克逊主义的农民和机械师——劳工改革者， 以及政治领袖，如伊利诺伊州的斯蒂芬·A·道格拉斯和田纳西州的安德鲁·约翰逊， 在季节内外都保持着鼓动。

The leader in this fateful enterprise was Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois, and the occasion for the deed was the demand for the organization of territorial government in the regions west of Iowa and Missouri.

伊利诺伊州参议员斯蒂芬·A·道格拉斯是这项重大事业的领导人，其契机是爱荷华州和密苏里州西部地区需要组建领土政府。