“He was Manacled for Us.” Davis was the “chosen vicarious victim,” said the rector of Baltimore’s Memorial Protestant Church, for northerners had “laid on him the falsely alleged iniquities of us all.” A southern poet in 1923 made the connection most explicitly: Jefferson Davis: Still we honor thee! Our lamb victorious, who for us endur’d A cross of martyrdom, a crown of thorns, A soul’s Gethsemane, a nation’s hate, A dungeon’s gloom! Another god in chains.35
