Show I LINCOLN AND DAVIS The statue of Abraham Ll which has stood in the ro- ro rotunda rotunda of the Kentucky state capitol for 23 years is to have a com com- companion companion panion a statue of Jefferson Davis for which an appropriation has been made by the legislature and a fund raised by popular subscription wIll be added It IS planned to have the statues of Lincoln and DaVIS stand together back to back the former facing the North the latter facing the South Thus wIll Kentucky honor two of her most dis- dis languished sons for both were born on her soil sOlI only a little more i than han miles apart r Davis was born In Todd county June 3 1808 and Lincoln in Larue county February 12 1809 Both removed from Kentucky with their parents at an early age Davis to Mississippi l Lincoln to IndIana and later to Illinois In 1861 Davis was made president of the Confederacy a few days before Lincoln's inauguration as presIdent of the United States Lincoln was destined to dIe by the hand of an assassin at atthe atthe the age of 56 whIle DaVIS lIved to the ripe age of 81 After the war DaVIS was charged with treason and kept a prisoner two but the proceedings against hIm were finally When Then amnesty was offered In 1868 he refused I ito to take the oath of allegiance w to the United States and thereby I hIS right to vote Nevertheless Jefferson DavIs was chosen by his adopted state Mississippi l as one of Its two representatIves representatives m In Statuary Hall popularly known as the Hall of Fame in Washington his statue was placed in 1929 |