 | Armstead L. Robinson - History - 2005 - 392 pages
...after his return from the Montgomery convention that voted for secession, Stephens said of slavery: "Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon...truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition."7 The Northern spy Allan Pinkerton,... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it — when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell." Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite...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 upon this... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...Constitution, including the following: 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 himself explained this statement in his Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States,... | |
 | Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 377 pages
...is founded upon exactly the opposite idea [of equality recited in the Declaration of Independence]; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.12 ( Slaves on the Move The initial Northern response to the Confederate states' secession... | |
 | Mike Sigalas, Melissa Bigner - Travel - 2006 - 342 pages
...oft-quoted speech at the Athenaeum on Bull Street in Savannah, in which he stated that the Confederacy's "cornerstone. . . rests upon the great truth, that...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." Though racism was rampant in the Confederacy, it was nearly as common — some would say more so —... | |
 | Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, Geoffrey Parker - History - 2006 - 438 pages
...rested. In the words of Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens, the new republic gloried in the "great truth, that the Negro is not equal to the...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." Admittedly, as a measure of desperation, in the last months of the war the Confederate Congress voted... | |
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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... 
