“The South has the right to leave,” his brother-in-law said. “States made this Union. States can unmake it.”
Near Concord, Massachusetts
Elias didn’t laugh. He remembered the winter at Valley Forge. He remembered seeing a man freeze to death sitting up, still holding his rifle. The oak didn’t know about that. But Elias did.
Elias watched.
“You can’t split a tree and call it two. The roots are the same.”