that wonderfully short and I think quite brilliant

我非常同意那篇精彩的
treatment of the secession commissioners--

对脱离主义者的短篇评论
as South Carolina was the first state to send out secession commissioners

因为南卡罗莱纳州是第一个将脱离主义者
to other states in the Deep South

遣送到南方腹地其它州去的州
and basically say,

他们大致上是这么说的
"Please join us, we're hanging out on this limb,

"请加入我们我们快坚持不住了
it's scary out here,

这里很可怕
and here are the reasons you should join us."

这些就是你应该加入我们的原因"
The next state to go though

不过直到61年一月九日
wasn't until the Ninth of January of '61.

才出现了下一个脱离联邦的州
It was Mississippi.

那就是密西西比
Mississippi held a Secession Convention.

密西西比召开了一场脱离联邦大会