 | Don Harrison Doyle - Political Science - 2002 - 152 pages
...Confederacy, when he said: "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea" of human equality; "its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." "With us," Stephens went on, "all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in... | |
 | Sharon R. Krause - Philosophy - 2002 - 294 pages
...when "the storm came and the wind blew." Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.149 By the time of the Civil War, then, southern honor had coalesced around the defining... | |
 | William C. Davis - History - 2002 - 496 pages
...Southern Republic." A few days later he went even further in Savannah, asserting that the Confederacy's "foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition." 44 When reports of his speeches got back to Montgomery, Davis and other moderates... | |
 | Kevin Reilly, Stephen Kaufman, Angela Bodino - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system. ... Its foundations are laid, its "cornerstone" rests...subordination to the superior race — is his natural or normal condition.2 Aversive racism is different from dominative racism, according to Kovel. Aversive... | |
 | Andrew Michael Manis - African Americans - 2002 - 244 pages
...the "Old" Union, the Confederacy did not stand for the equality of the races. Rather, he continued: "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite...upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to 43 Danville Register and Bee, June 8, 1993; June 12, 1993. the white man, that slavery — subordination... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...As Vice President Alexander Stephens had argued in 1861, the "corner-stone [of the new government] rests upon the great truth, that the Negro is not...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition."8 Acknowledgment by the Confederacy that blacks could make credible soldiers would shake... | |
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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... 
