Oh, but a piece of tilled soil was a great and good thing; it was like right and order to his mind, and a delight beyond....

哦，但是一块耕种的土地是一件伟大而美好的事情； 在他看来，这就像是正确和有秩序的， 而且是一种超越… … 的快乐。

Even in the old days there had been a large class of white yeomen who owned no slaves and tilled the soil with their own hands, but they labored under severe handicaps.

即使在过去，也有一大群没有奴隶、亲手耕种土地的白人自耕农，但他们在严重的残疾下劳作。