[M. Espinola]

Here's what Alexander Stephens in his "Cornerstone Speech" of March 21, 1861 had to say. Stephens was Vice-President of the new Confederate States of America.

"The new [Confederate] constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the 'negro' in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."

Alexander 'Grody' Stephens !

Ahhh,'revolution' how interesting.!

Stephens further noted, to resounding applause, that his values were in direct contradiction to those of the Declaration of Independence.

"Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated [race slavery] as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right....Our new government is founded 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 condition."

Remember the neo-Confederate's fish story, 'Slavery had nothing to do with he beginning of the Civil War'

Take a wild guess for whom Baghdad Bob is employed?

After the Civil War Federal officials arrested Stephens and imprisoned him at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor until October 1865. The crumb should done a 20 year stretch.

[Restorer]

It is important to recognize that Stephens' Cornerstone Speech was unanimously applauded throughout the South. He was elected as VP precisely because he was recognized as a moderate and conservative man.

IOW, the position taken in the Cornerstone Speech was not viewed in the South as that of a wild-eyed radical, but as being smack-dab in the middle of southern public opinion.

[fortheDeclaration]

Bagdad Bob-LOL!

Perfect spokesman for the Neo-Confederates.

[capitan_refugio]

I believe Birmingham Bob reported that the Federal troops were "committing suicide on the gates Richmond" late in the war.