SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 120
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 18, 1862
The President is thin and haggard; and it has been whispered
on the street that he will immediately be baptized and confirmed. I hope so,
because it may place a great gulf between him and the descendant of those who
crucified the Saviour. Nevertheless, some of his enemies allege that
professions of Christianity have sometimes been the premeditated accompaniments
of usurpations. It was so with Cromwell and with Richard III. Who does not
remember the scene in Shakspeare, where Richard appears on the balcony, with
prayer book in hand and a priest on either side?
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