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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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... - Page 105
by Frank Crosby - 1865 - 476 pages
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Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents

Ashlyn K. Kuersten - Social Science - 2003 - 294 pages
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A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia

Laughlin McDonald - History - 2003 - 266 pages
...he delivered in Savannah on March 21, 1861. The foundations of the Confederate government, he said, are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral 4 Bryanv. Walton, 14 Ga. 185, 198, 202 (1853). i DredScottv. Sandford, 60 US (19 How.) 393, 407...
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"All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell": The Civil War, Race Relations, and the ...

Mark K. Christ - History - 2003 - 156 pages
..."assumption of the equality of races. This was an error." Instead, the new government's cornerstone rested "upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."2 A less well-known Southerner, a plantation mistress from North Carolina, would put it...
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The American Civil War: The War in the West 1863-1865

Joseph T. Glatthaar - United States - 2002 - 100 pages
...explained its purpose best when he declared, 'Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ... is his natural and normal condition.' Northerners, by contrast, rallied around the flag for the...
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Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land ...

Francis Adams, Barry Sanders - History - 2003 - 392 pages
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Why You Are a Liberal--Or Should Be

Keevan Morgan - Political Science - 2004 - 0 pages
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Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode

Charles Reagan Wilson, Mark Silk - History - 2005 - 414 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...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition."53 And Stephens was hardly alone. States' rights was a means to the end of preserving slavery...
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John Elliot Cairnes: Collected Works, Volume 3

John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 376 pages
...it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, politically. Our new government is founded on exactly opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone...subordination to the superior race — is his natural and moral condition. This our government is the first in the history of the world based upon this great...
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The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History

Alexander Tsesis - Law - 2004 - 229 pages
...Confederate vice president, Alexander Stephens, explained that the "cornerstone" of his government rested "upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal...superior race, is his natural and normal condition." Confederate symbols embrace a message that is very different than the one expressed in national symbols...
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