THE TRUTH from an unlikely source: a July 1882 ATLANTA CONSTITUTION interview with OSCAR WILDE: "[Jefferson Davis] lives in a very beautiful house by the sea. He impressed me very much as a man of the keenest intellect...We in Ireland are fighting for the principle of autonomy against empire, for independence against centralization, for the principles for which the South fought. So it was a matter of immense interest and pleasure to me to meet the leader of such a great cause. Because although there may be a failure in fact, in idea there is no failure possible. THE PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH MR. DAVIS AND THE SOUTH WENT TO WAR CANNOT SUFFER DEFEAT." https://books.google.com/books?id=pRJ0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&lpg=PT107&dq=%22Oscar+Wilde%22+confederacy+%22Jefferson+Davis%22&source=bl&ots=81WqJ1yWbq&sig=-7J6rO56gkydX0PZZswzU4zPv9Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIvZnVoOzPAhVBwj4KHTPwCP0Q6AEIPjAF#v=onepage&q=%22Oscar%20Wilde%22%20confederacy%20%22Jefferson%20Davis%22&f=false