 | 1905 - 606 pages
...Stephens, speaking as Vice-President of the Confederate States, declared that the Confederacy 'rested ' upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the ' white man . . . that subordination to the superior race is his ' natural and moral condition.' These words, spoken more... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...• . TUNE. " Our new government is founded upon exactly opposite ideas. Its corner-stone rests on the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man — that slavery is his natural and normal condition. Thus our government is the first t in .the history of the world... | |
 | English periodicals - 1861 - 576 pages
...blew, it fell.' Our new 'government is founded upon exactly ' the opposite ideas ; its foundations are 'laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the ' great...is not equal ' to the white man — that slavery, sub' ordination to the superior race, is his " natural and normal condition. This " our new government... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1861 - 178 pages
...the Bedeemer of Men. Vice-President Stephens says of it, " Its foundations are laid, the corner stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery is subordination to the superior race, — is his natural and normal condition, — the stone which... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - History - 1862 - 328 pages
...morally, and politically. Our new government is founded on exactly opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth...slavery — subordination to the superior race — is ced point has been reached. Thirty years ago it was contended " that there was not the slightest moral... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...wind blew, it felV " Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas : its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth,...that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is Jtis natural and moral [normal?] condition. [Applause.] This, our new government, is the first, in... | |
 | Garrett Davis - Confederate States of America - 1862 - 26 pages
...the wind blew, it fell" Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth...man. That slavery— subordination to the superior race—is his natural and moral condition. [Applause.] This, our new government, is the first in the... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...wind blew, it fell. Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid ; its corner-stone rests upon the great truth...to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to tlie superior race, is his natural and moral condition. This, our new Government, is the first in the... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1862 - 774 pages
...and politically". " Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas. Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth...that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slaverj7, in subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new... | |
 | William Taylor - United States - 1862 - 40 pages
...socially, morally and politically. Our new Government is founded on exactly opposite ideas. Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, and that slavery or a subordination to a superior race, is his natural or normal condition. This, our... | |
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Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery—subordination to the superior race —is his natural and... 
