from the Richmond Courier, November 9, 1902:
PRITCHARD WINS BY SLIM MARGIN - Jeter Connelly Pritchard has been elected President of the Confederate States of America in the closest election in CS history. The victorious candidate appeared on the balcony of his home in Marshall, North Carolina, to make a brief statement:
"I wish to thank the people for entrusting me with the governance of our great nation. In the next six years, the Confederacy will continue to rise among the family of nations, and will take our rightful place in the sun."
..."one of the first orders of business is opening discussions with the government of Colombia on the question of building a canal across the isthmus of Panama....we will not let the feelings of the United States government determine our path - the Yankees lost the right to guide the citizens of Dixie when General Lee whipped their fannies at Gettysburg...The twentieth century will be the age of Southern ascendancy..."
Reports from our correspondents in Columbia indicate that the US government is "concerned" with the direction the Confederacy will be taken under the Pritchard administration...
CSA President Jeter C. Pritchard