Argumentative Essay On Cornerstone Speech

In Cornerstate Speech, Vice President Alexander H. Stephens states that that the “negro’s aren’t equal to the white people and that slavery is a natural and ethical issue. As he delivered his speech on March 21, 1861 in Savannah, Georgia, Stephens covered all sorts of issues. However, one of the main components of the speech which is remembered today is slavery. The cornerstone speech is considered the confederacy as essentially opposing to the idea of equality in freedom for human beings. Speech covered and revealed the truth about Confederate government. Stephens got the name for cornerstone from the Bible which refers to the stone which was not selected by the first builders, He uses the Biblical reference to identify the Confederate States of America’s to the …show more content…
But the new government was the first government in the history that was based upon moral truth which was hard to digest for many. The northern states were trying to make things equal which were made unequal since the creation. The people on the North are trying to overcome these errors with justification, they realize that the “negro’s” deserve just as much as equality just as the whites. He states that it all comes down to ones mindset and how willingly the people are able to accept this truth. The people on the north have come to terms with the fact that if the “negro’s” are equal, they should have the same rights and privileges of the white man. Even from the cartoon sketch of Lincoln, it is clear that the North is accepting the equality between the whites and the negro’s. The north also had less or no need of slaves as the north was beginning to industrialize compared to the south which was involved in agriculture and used