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JEFFERSON DAVIS AND PAUL KRUGER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When you gave ex-President Kruger a niche beside Jefferson Davis, were you thinking of Lowell's words ?-

d sooner take my chance to sten' At Jedgment where your meanest slave is Than at God's bar hor up a ban' Es drippin' red es your'n, Jeff Davis."

....I am, Sir, &c., W. K. GILL.

Eversley, Wimborne Road, Poole.