 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - 2002 - 486 páginas
...from its outset, Stephens commented: "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition."66 The new constitution allowed that federal judicial officers, "acting solely within the... | |
 | Donald Lee Grant - 2001 - 640 páginas
...beliefs white Southerners had been busily teaching each other for generations. He said of slavery: "Its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." It was this racist bedrock, born of self-deception and assiduously cultivated since Georgia was founded,... | |
 | Edward J. Cashin, Glenn T. Eskew - 2001 - 264 páginas
...feature of the ideal society. "Our new government," he said in a speech in Savannah, "is founded upon, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the...subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition." He said that this great truth had been slow to evolve and that the Confederacy was... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 páginas
...exactly the opposite idea [from abolition]; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests," he said, "upon the great truth that the negro is not equal...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." The rest of Davis's inaugural cabinet, formed over several days following his inauguration, comprised... | |
 | Robert G. Tanner - 2001 - 198 páginas
...crowd, did not espouse the equality of men; rather, it was "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. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 165 páginas
...be "an error." The new Confederate government, he said, is founded upon exactly the opposite idea: Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon...that the negro is not equal to the white man. That slavery—subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new Government,... | |
 | Thomas Koys - 2002 - 244 páginas
...men are created equal. The new Confederacy, by 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.97 97. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865,... | |
 | the late Robert James Branham, Stephen J. Hartnett - 2002 - 289 páginas
...of the drafters of the US Constitution had believed that slavery was an evil that should pass away, "our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition." Stephens's emphatic explanation was applauded by his immediate audience and widely... | |
 | Don Harrison Doyle - 2002 - 152 páginas
...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 - 2002 - 294 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
