Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Edwin Sumner” in chapter 83 of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2:
...arding Sumner's going alone into the hall, and I substantiated the fact.
Mr. Davis, in answer to some adverse criticism upon Sumner, promptly replied: Brave and honest men are not suspicious, and Edwin Sumner is as brave as Caesar and honest as Cato.
This illustrates Mr. Davis's fidelity to truth and justice, regardless of sectional birth or habitation.
All knew Sumner was from Massachusetts. Mr. Dav...
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