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Jul 22, 2024 · The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration given by Alexander H. Stephens, acting Vice President of the Confederate States of America, at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861.
Jan 2, 2024 · In his so-called Cornerstone Speech, delivered on March 21, 1861, in Savannah, Georgia, the Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens described the new Confederate constitution. Slavery, he said, and “the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man,” would be its cornerstone.
May 10, 2024 · It explores the life of Alexander Stephens, the first and only Vice President of The Confederacy, and his home Liberty Hall. I also address his political life as a whole. Also included is the...
Nov 21, 2023 · The Vice President was Alexander H. Stephens. What did the Confederacy stand for? The primary source documents from the creation of the Confederacy are very clear: they stood for the ability to...
Dec 4, 2023 · His Vice-President, Alexander Stephens, said that the cornerstone of the new government “rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man.”
4 days ago · Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens both wrote postwar arguments in favor of secession's legality and the international legitimacy of the Government of the Confederate States of America, most notably Davis' The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
Jul 3, 2024 · Alexander H. Stephens Perhaps unsurprisingly, one striking difference between the U.S. and Confederate constitutions was the latter’s overt enshrinement of the institution of slavery. Neither the word slave nor the word slavery appears in the unamended U.S. Constitution.
Jan 20, 2024 · Alexander H. Stephens and The State Convention Movement in Georgia: A Reappraisal By John R. Brumgardt* A LEXANDER H. Stephens has been generally portrayed as./'a hindrance to Southern success during the American Civil War. His chief biographers, Rudolph Von Abele and James Z. Rabun, say he never fully supported the Confederacy, promoted
Mar 2, 2024 · In Savannah, Georgia, at its Atheneum—a theater for shows and oratory—the vice-president of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, came to speak about the events leading up to states seceding from the Union and forming the Confederacy.
Jun 11, 2024 · Alexander H. Stephens, The Nestor of the Confederacy. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America , https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/99335950-c5ab-012f-c631-58d385a7bc34. (Accessed June 11, 2024 .)
