I’ve read the articles of secession of some of the confederate states to people parroting lost cause nonsense to me; it’s fun watching them completely fail to rebut it. Primary source material is handy.
I don’t think anything makes it more clear than the VP of the Confederacy coming right out and saying it in the Cornerstone Speech.
Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error.
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Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, 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. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
I’ve read the articles of secession of some of the confederate states to people parroting lost cause nonsense to me; it’s fun watching them completely fail to rebut it. Primary source material is handy.
I don’t think anything makes it more clear than the VP of the Confederacy coming right out and saying it in the Cornerstone Speech.
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https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech#:~:text=Our new government is founded,his natural and normal condition.
Secession?
Yeah, thanks. I always screw that one up