It's true, especially after one reviews the bombastic speech of Confed 'VP' Andrew Stephens. Today that speech remains one of the most worshiped hate rantings of the KKK & neo-Nazis (those that can read). The words are 100% pure hate.
I am wondering if anyone will dare defend Stephens deliberately provoking viciousness.
I won't defend his words. To him, slavery might have been worth fighting for, but he wasn't the one that was doing the dying. What you have to realize is that some statesmen in the South, and most of it's people didn't agree with slavery, but defended it as a matter of state's rights. In other words, [If they can take away our slaves, what will they take away next!] That is the crux of the whole situation. Stephens was a staunch supporter of slavery. The ironic thing is that he and Lincoln were close friends.
opinions are like belly-buttons, as everybody has ONE.
Stephens no more spoke for all of dixie, than i do.
free dixie,sw
If they had won the war, it would have been one of their most praised.
After the war, a massive revision of history was undertaken to show that the South was the victim of Northern tyranny and was only defending the principles of 1776.
All accounts of the rejection of the Declaration's principles of mankinds essential equality were to be discounted as not really being what the Confederacy stood for or the Declaration itself did not stand for equality, a position that was pushed by the Democrats in 1850.
Either way, the Cornerstone speech is (along with the Confederate Constitution) the most honest revelation of the Confederacy's true foundation-slavery yesterday, slavery today and slavery forever.