(Fleming, Walter L. “Jefferson Davis, The Negroes and the Negro Problem.” The Sewanee Review, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct., 1908), pp. 407-427)

Despite the counter arguments being made, the myth of the Lost Cause continued to expand and ingrain itself in America, both in the North and in the South. Articles such as this one, from Sewanee, the University of the South, portrayed Jefferson Davis (and by extension the entire Confederacy) as kind hearted and good intentioned. As it states in the above quote, pro-Southern writers continued to promote the notion that slavery was viewed as non-permanent in the South. The idea that the Confederacy would eventually abolish slavery themselves is fundamentally false and in fact, as it is shown above, the Constitution of the Confederate States outlaws any law that infringes on the right to own “negro slaves” (Richardson, Constitution of the Confederate States; March 11, 1861.). In light of this blatantly contradictory assessment of Davis, it seems ridiculous that any individual with the slightest knowledge of Confederate values would dismiss the Lost Cause version of history. Yet that was not the case. University writings, motivated community organizations, church groups, politicians, historians, and veterans all aided in extensive creation and acceptance of a different narrative for the Civil War.