 | James M. McPherson - History - 2007 - 272 pages
...all men are created equal. The Confederacy, in contrast, "is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based on this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."3 After the war, however, Davis and Stephens... | |
 | George C. Rable - History - 2007 - 282 pages
...fathers' ideas about the equality of man: "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." In his official position after the war Sanderson experienced the practical application of Stephens's... | |
 | James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...attacked Fort Sumter, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens expounded, "Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." UDC leaders doubtless hoped that if they left those principles vague, readers would infer something... | |
 | James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...supremacy. According to Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy: "Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." Confederate soldiers on their way to Antietam and Gettysburg, their two mam forays into Union states,... | |
 | David J. Eicher - History - 2007 - 376 pages
...equality of the races, Stephens proclaimed, "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."7 Davis was understandably upset at Stephens's public remarks — not the remarks, but their... | |
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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... 
