[DoodleDawg]

It was widely reported at the time. Of course newspaper articles are no good. Unless they support the Neo-Confederate position.

The link you provided was to Stephens' address to the Georgia Secession Convention and not the Cornerstone speech. Are you saying that speech was incorrectly reported too?

Link

[SoCal Pubbie]

No, if I posted the wrong link, that’s my error.

“The speech was first reported in the Savannah Republican newspaper, with this version appearing in a collection of Stephens’s papers, edited by Henry Cleveland and published in 1866.”

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/cornerstone-speech-by-alexander-h-stephens-march-21-1861/

Note “a collection of Stephen’s papers.”