Jefferson Davis Quotes
Is this Chamber to be the hot-bed in which plants of sedition are to be nursed?
The sedition to which Senator Davis objected was proposal of Senator John P. Hale's proposal to outlaw pro-slavery mobs in the District of Columbia who attacked abolitionists and their newspapers.
Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889, U. S. Congressman & U. S. Senator (Democrat, MS), U. S. Secretary of War, President, Confederate States of America, Senate Debate, April 20, 1848
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Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War. He previously served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857 under President Franklin Pierce.
