You are referring inappropriately to the "Cornerstone Speech", which represented a political statement produced by Alexander Stephens for the cause he had so recently embraced.
The "Cornerstone" needs to be contextualized properly by posting it in full, side-by-side with the full text of Stephens's remarks to the Georgia secession convention only days earlier, in which he spoke candidly about his opinion that it would be better for Georgia (and by extension the South) to remain in the Union.
Your "all about slavery" bender is actually contemporary Northern liberal and Democratic Party propaganda and not a genuinely historical perspective.
He was vice-president of the confederate states. If he didn't know why they rebelled then who did?
The "Cornerstone" needs to be contextualized properly by posting it in full, side-by-side with the full text of Stephens's remarks to the Georgia secession convention only days earlier, in which he spoke candidly about his opinion that it would be better for Georgia (and by extension the South) to remain in the Union.
Stephens made those remarks to the Georgia secession convention in mid-January 1861. The Cornerstone speech was two months later, not a few days. In the interim Stephens had been a leader at the Montgomery convention, helped shape the rebel constitution, and accepted the post of vice president. Your suggestion that his loyalty is suspect is somewhat ridiculous.
Feel free to check me on the dates. For all you know I'm fibbing my ass off again.
Your "all about slavery" bender is actually contemporary Northern liberal and Democratic Party propaganda and not a genuinely historical perspective.
You mean it doesn't meet current Lost Cause revisionist standards.