Vice Pres. of the Confederacy Cornerstone Speech
The confederate vice president said in a speech,
The United States of America said "all men are created equal"
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone 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. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science."
The Cornerstone Speech is so called because Stephens used the word "cornerstone" to describe the "great truth" of white supremacy and black subordination upon which secession and confederation were based:
Using biblical imagery,Stephens argued that divine laws consigned African Americans to slavery as the "substratum of our society" by saying:
Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone which was rejected by the first builders "is become the chief of the corner"—the real "corner-stone"—in our new edifice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
And this is their "Heritage" they are so proud of??? And this asshole's statue is in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.
