[mac_truck]

Now if they'd taken the responsibility of building their own ships and warehouses, the rest of these complaints you enumerate would have been equally addressed.

How dare you suggest that Southern gentlemen actually take responsibility for this sort of enterprise. Why that would require...hard work, sweat, and mingling with mud-sills. Not to mention, skill and ingenuity...

[Colonel Kangaroo]

How dare you suggest that Southern gentlemen actually take responsibility for this sort of enterprise. Why that would require...hard work, sweat, and mingling with mud-sills. Not to mention, skill and ingenuity...

I think very few people, even those who defend the CSA, can sympathize with a group having such a warped viewpoint as the planter aristocracy at the apex of the Southern pyramid. Thus the effort to try to ignore such blunt expressions of the planter elite mentality as found in the Cornerstone speech.