What are we all—white Negroes, or serfs or what? What is the little man, Jeff Davis? Where did he get it? Is this man one of the Caesars? Or is he one of the Medici? Or perhaps the last of the Bothic … ? Or is he veritably “the last of the Bourbons”? Can it be so? Or is he indeed that little backwoods man from Mississippi … the very worst executive officer known in the modern world since the time of his prototype, James II of England.
The Charleston Mercury
February 7, 1865