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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1822 |
| AUTHOR: | William Lowndes Yancey (1814–63) |
| QUOTATION: | The man and the hour have met. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WILLIAM YANCEY, introducing Jefferson Davis, president-elect of the Confederacy, in Montgomery, Alabama, February 16, 1861. Attributed to Yancey by the biographers of Davis, including Hudson Strode, Jefferson Davis, vol. 1, p. 407 (1955). |
| SUBJECTS: | Times |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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