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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   This is from the "Cornerstone Speech" by traitor Alexander Stephens, vice   
   president of the traitor states.   
      
      
   The prevailing ideas entertained by [Thomas Jefferson] and most of the leading   
   statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the   
   enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was   
   wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they   
   knew   
   not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was   
   that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be   
   evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the   
   constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is   
   true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should   
   last,   
   and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees   
   thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however,   
   were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of   
   races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built   
   upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew."   
      
   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.   
      
   https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech   
      
   The secession and war were over slavery, and nothing else.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)