Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Nashville Union says . . .

. . . Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, is the son of a horse thief, who once lived in the town of Fairview, Todd county, Kentucky, some fifty miles from this city.  He is said to be a bastard.  And he is the head of a bastard Confederacy.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

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