“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
*seen at the beginning of Part III (139)
| Item | Description |
| Event significance | |
| The Charleston Mercury | |
| Author of excerpt | |
| Caesars | Refers to Julius Caesar, but also synonymous with “emperor” or “tyrant”. |
| Bothic | Scottish hut or cottage, usually a one room chamber were laborers lived. |
| Bourbons (family or group) | The Bourbons were a French dynasty whose rule ended shortly after the the French Revolution. Had some times with the Medici by marriage. Louise Philippe was the last Bourbon king of France. |
| Medici as in Italian | |
| References “backwards man of Mississippi” | |
| Event on or before this date | |
| James II influence | Was the king of Great Britain. His family is credited to have started the slave trade in Great Britain. |
| Term: “white Negroes” | |
| Burning of Richmond | |
| Richmond |