“I am, sir. I have never denied it.”
“Where do you reside?”
“I consider Rienzi my home, but have been staying for some time at my father-in-law’s, in the south-eastern part of Tishomingo county.”
“What is your father-in-law’s name?”
“Mr. Alexander Paden.”
“I know the old gentleman and his three sons. They are all in the Confederate service. They are brave men, and have done some hard fighting in our cause. How happens it that you look at matters in a different light from your relatives?”
“I am not guided in my opinions by the views of my friends.”
“What is your profession?”
“I am a minister of the gospel.”
“I suppose, then, that you go to the Bible for your politics, and that you are a sort of higher-law man.”