The single glory of the South is that it was able to stand out so long against such odds.
Jefferson Davis was a high-minded and well-intentioned man.

He was chosen to lead the South because he was, in addition, an accomplished soldier.

As one who consistently opposed him in his public policies, I can specify no act to the discredit of his character, his one serious mistake being his failure to secure the peace offered by Abraham Lincoln two short months before Appomattox.
Taking account of their personalities and the lives they led, there is little to suggest comparison, except that they were soldiers and Senators, who, each in his day, filled a foremost place in public affairs.
Aaron Burr, though well born and highly educated, was perhaps a rudely-minded man.

But he was no traitor.

If the lovely woman, Theodosia Prevost, whom he married, had lived, there is reason to believe that the whole course and tenor of his career would have been altered.