 | George C. Rable - 2007 - 282 str.
...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 - 2007 - 464 str.
...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,... | |
 | James W. Loewen - 2007 - 464 str.
...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... | |
 | David J. Eicher - 2007 - 376 str.
...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... | |
 | William W. Freehling Singletary Professor of the Humanities University of Kentucky - 2007 - 625 str.
...Southern Confederacy, declared Stephens shortly after assuming the new nation's vice presidency in 1861, "rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not...subordination to the superior race — is his natural or normal condition." Our master "idea," added William L. Yancey, is that every "white man is the equal... | |
 | Jonas E. Alexis - 2007 - 413 str.
...Confederacy under Jefferson Davis, told his audience: "Our new government is founded upon... the idea... that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race^is his natural and normal condition,"33 Likewise, an Anglican minister declared that slaves "seem... | |
 | Morton Keller Professor of History Brandeis University - 2007 - 350 str.
...put it, the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy was "the great truth that the negro is not the equal of the white man; that slavery— subordination to the...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." The Charleston Mercury tried to echo the Founders when it declared of the drafting of the Confederate... | |
 | Erik S. Root - 2008 - 268 str.
...assumption of the equality of the races . . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon...slavery — subordination to the superior race — is this natural and normal condition."40 Why would Stephens contend that the slave was in his natural... | |
 | Ritchie Devon Watson - 2008 - 297 str.
...cornerstone of a nascent southern confederacy, a new nation founded, in Alexander Stephens's words, "upon the great truth that the negro is not equal...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."59 Southerners employed polygenesis first and foremost as a scientific confirmation... | |
 | Val L. McGee - 2008 - 794 str.
...questions relating to the proper status of the Negro in our form of civilization. Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; and that slavery and subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition." For a... | |
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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... 
