Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Jefferson Davis” in chapter 12, page 87 of Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant:
...In the late fifties and early sixties, the North and South hated each other bitterly.
I was brought up in the midst of that hatred and partook of it; and I remember suggesting, as a small boy, when Jefferson Davis was captured, that he be taken through the streets of our cities on exhibition in an iron cage.
Our favorite song devoted him
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