My point was that both struggled with very difficult problems of
internal dissent and both reacted in fundamentally the same way, given
the lack of legal tools and institutions to deal with it.  

However, I think your selling Jefferson Davis's popularity short.  There
is a substantial statue here in Richmond on a street known as Monument
Avenue (perhaps you've seen it?), a major north-south highway named
after him, and numerous museums and historic sites across the United
States that honor him, and I'm sure that's not the half of it. 

Gregg Kimball  

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I don't see any giant marble monuments in the nation's capital to Jeff
Davis, nor do I see him popularly held to be one of America's greatest
leaders.  I personally rank Lincoln's performance right up there  with
Hiram Grant, Cal Coolidge, Jimmy Carter and Bill  Clinton.

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