This chapter's epigraph comes from the novel's title, "Restoration of Justice." It's a quote from a famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote that "justice" is "the state of affairs in which one's rights are not infringed." In other words, justice is the state in which a person's property is not stolen. This passage describes a situation in which the rights of one person are infringed upon by another's. It also describes the injustice of a state where a person is denied justice because of his or her race, class, religion, gender, sexual preference, or physical disability. It is this injustice that led to the creation of the state of Illinois. This injustice is the cause of the Civil War, and it is the