 | Howard Jones - History - 2002 - 334 pages
...caused "the late rupture and present revolution." The Confederate government, he continued, rested "upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition." When Lincoln declared that the war was to preserve the Union, Britons who favored... | |
 | W. Rodman Philbrick, Rodman Philbrick - Fiction - 2002 - 332 pages
...of our present revolution is the threat to the institution of slavery. Our new government is founded upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition.' " Lucy snapped the newspaper sharply upon her knees. "The words come from their own... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Literary Collections - 2009 - 240 pages
...Stephens insisted that, by contrast, "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea. Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon...truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man. Slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This, our new... | |
 | Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races. This was an error .... Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite...government, is the first, in the history of the world, based on this great physical and moral truth. This conclusion that the Negro was not equal was not unique... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...fundamentally wrong," Stephens proclaimed. "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid; its corner-stone rests,...superior race, is his natural and normal condition." Stephens once had quoted Proverbs 25:11 to Abraham Lincoln — "A word fitly spoken is like apples... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...believed in human equality. "Our new Government," he said, "is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."26 The centrality of slavery to secession is demonstrated by the appeals made by South... | |
 | Robert David Sack - Philosophy - 2003 - 316 pages
...incorrect assumption that all men are created equal, but rather "founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based on this... | |
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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... 
