Status Updates From North and South

I’m really thrown off by the pacing after coming straight from a book that was over four times as long…. but other than that, I’m loving it

“God gave you strength to do what your conscience told you was right; and I don’t see that we need any higher or holier strength than that; or wisdom either. I know I have not that much; and yet men set me down in their fool’s books as a wise man; an independent character; strong-minded, and all that cant. The veriest idiot who obeys his own simple law of right … is wiser and stronger than I.”