 | Carol P. Marsh-Lockett - African American women - 1999 - 242 pages
...from Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice- President of the Confederacy: "Our new government is founded upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man — that slavery is his natural and normal condition" (7l4). While her epithet underscores that the Civil War as fought... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...embarrassment when in a speech at Savannah on March 21 he said of the new Confederate States government that "its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests,...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."20 The embarrassment was simply such as is usually prompted by unvarnished plain-spoken... | |
 | James L. Abrahamson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...new government is founded . . . , its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro [sic] is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination...superior race — is his natural and normal condition. Alexander Stephens "Cornerstone" Speech Savannah, March 1861 CONTENTS Introduction xv Chronology xix... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...government that "its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negra is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition"2' The embarrassment was simply such as is usually prompted by unvarnished plain-spoken... | |
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...from its outset, Stephens commented: "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition."66 The new constitution allowed that federal judicial officers, "acting solely within the... | |
 | Donald Lee Grant - History - 2001 - 640 pages
...beliefs white Southerners had been busily teaching each other for generations. He said of slavery: "Its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." It was this racist bedrock, born of self-deception and assiduously cultivated since Georgia was founded,... | |
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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 slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal... 
