来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第18集第18集》

for our axes, scythes, tubs and buckets,

还有我们的斧子镰刀缸和桶
in short for everything except our bread and meat,

总之除了面包和肉我们都要依靠北方
it must occur to the South

南方人一定要意识到
that if our relations with the North are ever severed

如果我们和北方中断贸易关系
we should"--they'd already been severed--

我们应该" 那时南北关系已经决裂
"we should in all the South not be able to clothe ourselves.

"我们所有南方人便会衣不遮体
We could not fill our firesides,

家中也无法起灶做饭
plow our fields, nor mow our meadows.

无法耕田更不能锄草
In fact, we should be reduced to a state

事实上我们应该做出
more abject than we are willing to look at,

比预期更坏的心理准备
even prospectively,

即使它有可能更好
and yet all these things staring us in the face,

而所有这些发生在我们眼前的事情