. . . is the author of the following cutting lines on ‘honest Old Abe.'
“Jeff Davis rides a white horse,
Lincoln rides a mule,
Jeff Davis is a gentleman,
And Lincoln is a fule.”
She concludes by saying that she “will be for Jeff Davis till the tenicee river freezes over, and then be for him, and scratch his name on the ice.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3
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