Professor Mathew Hinckley
History 1301
07/06/2017
Cornerstone Speech
Cornerstone speech also known as "Cornerstone Address" is the speech given by Alexander Stephen in Savannah Georgia on March 21, 1861. During the Civil war , he served as the Vice President of Confederate States of America. When was elected to the Confederate Congress, he deliberated the speech that announced about new government where he said that all races are not equal and the whites are always superior then the black people. He believed and insisted that the American Revolution was based on the premises of wrong fundamental foundation. He strongly supports to the idea of slavery and whites as superior race which he thinks is natural from the many years. …show more content…
it was like a weak building which was easily blown away by the wind. Stephens was a supremacist who trusted African individuals to be actually, unalterably inferior compared to whites. In that he resembled by far most of whites, American or European, of his time, including Abraham Lincoln; whites like William Lloyd Garrison, who considered the races level with in rights and potential, were viewed as radical by generally whites. Stephens claimed slaves and considered subjection ethically right. In this he resembled most southern whites, yet very dissimilar to numerous northern whites, including Lincoln, who trusted that …show more content…
He was also one of the person who opposed racism and hypocrisy. Nast was twenty one years old when he draw his first political cartoon of "The President’s Inaugural". In the first picture in left side, he portrays the reaction of northern state to the President’s inaugural speech. He is portrayed with the palm branches and garlands of peace. In the other side , Lincoln expect an alternate Roman clothing as a helmeted warrior remaining on a vanquished adversary. The Union fighter on the left, plainly a casualty, looks blue and beaten as he holds out his hand, having surrendered to the prevalent Confederate trooper, apparently Jefferson Davis, leader of the Confederacy. iN the cartoon Nast has the message. A bargain, for example, this invalidates every one of the endeavors and enduring and, as far as the photos of African Americans on the "South" side, an arrival to subjection is an imaginable