Throughout the South, most of the cotton planters were in the same fix.

在整个南方，大多数的棉花种植主都处于相同的困境。

By the eighteen thirties, cotton planters believed that without slavery, the whole economic system of the south would lie in ruins.

到十八世纪三十年代时，棉花种植者认为，如果没有奴隶制，南方的整个经济体系将变为一片废墟。

Unable to export their cotton, planters on the seaboard burned it in what were called " fires of patriotism." In their lurid light the fatal weakness of Southern economy stood revealed.

由于无法出口棉花， 沿海的种植园主将其焚烧，被称为“爱国主义之火” 。 在他们刺眼的光芒中， 南方经济的致命弱点暴露无遗。

Thus, at one sweep, the whole field of instruction south of the Potomac was shut off; it was overshadowed by the cotton planters, from whom one could learn nothing but bad temper, bad manners, poker, and treason.

因此，一扫之下，波托马克河以南的整个教学场所都被关闭了；棉花种植园主使它黯然失色，从他们身上只能学到坏脾气、没礼貌、玩扑克牌和叛国罪。

Moreover, the cotton planters, finding a market at the neighboring mills, began to look forward to a day when they would be somewhat emancipated from absolute dependence upon the cotton exchanges of New York, New Orleans, and Liverpool.

此外， 棉花种植园主在附近的纺织厂找到了市场，开始期待有一天他们能从对纽约、新奥尔良和利物浦棉花交易所的绝对依赖中解放出来。