The Cornerstone Speech Inauguration Summary
Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, articulates to the people of the inequality between the races in our country. The Cornerstone Speech revolves around slavery and was thought by many, that Negroes were inferior “Upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man”(Cornerstone,1861). By presenting the Cornerstone Speech and the Lincoln's Inauguration, it gives the people a view of how this country was onced runned by a fallaciously belief. By creating a new government in which Lincoln is in control of, this is a way of mending the errors of the past ancestors. Slavery should have never existed, men of all kind should have been treated equally from the start, and no inferior or superior of one another. Stephen made a point that if negroes is to equal to a white man then the same privileges and rights should be giving as well to negroes, after all a man is a man no matter what race or ethnicity they are (Cornerstone,N.A). When one
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The old constitution contained flaws that the new constitution filled in. In 1861 slavery was a hard issue to address because the South relies on them so heavily. The southerners could not accept the abolishment of slavery since their mindset was still that the negroes were inferior to white. South was against abolishment of slavery and the North was for abolishment of slavery. When Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal” even he, himself owned hundreds of slaves. Even though he knew it was wrong to have slaves he ignored that fact and slavery remained. 1861 the President Lincoln’s Inaugural and the Cornerstone speech, was seen by the majority of religious white that believed that the South was in the wrong. Both of these documents were the items needed to make peace throughout the
The old constitution contained flaws that the new constitution filled in. In 1861 slavery was a hard issue to address because the South relies on them so heavily. The southerners could not accept the abolishment of slavery since their mindset was still that the negroes were inferior to white. South was against abolishment of slavery and the North was for abolishment of slavery. When Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal” even he, himself owned hundreds of slaves. Even though he knew it was wrong to have slaves he ignored that fact and slavery remained. 1861 the President Lincoln’s Inaugural and the Cornerstone speech, was seen by the majority of religious white that believed that the South was in the wrong. Both of these documents were the items needed to make peace throughout the