Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, friends, and fellow citizens: Called to the difficult and responsible station of chief magistrate of the provisional government which you have instituted, Portico under a wintry sky, he unfolded a thin sheaf of paper and began to read his inaugural address in a strong, clear baritone: Now, barely 24 hours later, standing in front of the Alabama Statehouse’s Exhausted from a weeklong railway journey, he had stayed inīed in his suite at the Exchange Hotel until after 10 a.m., then buckled down to work. Like a feckless college student with a term paper deadline looming, Jefferson Davis apparently hadn’t started seriously writing until the day before. Library of Congress Jefferson Davis’s inauguration as Confederate president at the Alabama state capitol, Feb.
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