Note: the photographer climbed a tree across the street from the Capitol Building (a tree that is no longer there). You can see a (blurry) branch of the tree on the bottom left. This AI improved photo shows Davis more clearly.
Davis on slavery?
“We recognize the negro as God and God’s Book and God’s Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him: Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.”
Clear writing was apparently not his strong suite.
That was also true in the writing of a telegram authorizing the first shots fired in the Civil War:
Montgomery, April 11, 1861
General Beauregard, Charleston:
Do not desire needlessly to bombard Fort Sumter. If Major Anderson will state the time at which, as indicated by him, he will evacuate, and agree that in the meantime he will not use his guns against us unless ours should be employed against Fort Sumter, you are thus authorized to avoid the effusion of blood. If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.
L. P. Walker
Sec. of War. C.S.A.
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