..........perpetuated unto us and our descendants that glorious heritage
of valor, chivalry and honor which we now hold and venerate; and to
INSTILL IN OUR DESCENDANTS A DEVOTION TO AND REVERENCE FOR THE PRINCIPLES
REPRESENTED BY THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, to the honor, glory and
memory of our fathers who fought in that CAUSE.
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THE CORNERSTONE PRINCIPLE OF "THE CAUSE".
Alexander Stephens, Vice President of The Confederate States of America wrote:
("which was with us, or should be, nothing but the
proper subordination of the inferior African race to the superior white")
"The new Confederation was entered into with this distinct understanding. This principle of the subordination of the inferior to the superior was the "corner-stone" on which it was formed."
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THE CORNERSTONE PRINCIPLE OF
"THE CAUSE".
Alexander Stephens, Vice President of The Confederate States of America wrote:
"I admitted that the fathers, both North and South, who framed the old
Constitution, while recognizing existing slavery and guaranteeing its
continuance under the Constitution so long as the States should severally
see fit to tolerate it in their respective limits, were perhaps all
opposed to the principle. Jefferson, Madison, Washington, all looked for
its early extinction throughout the United States. But, on the subject of
slavery�so called�(which was with us, or should be, nothing but the
proper subordination of the inferior African race to the superior white) great
and radical changes had taken place in the realm of thought; many eminent
latter-day statesmen, philosophers, and philanthropists held different
views from the fathers.
The patriotism of the fathers was not questioned, nor their ability and
wisdom, but it devolved on the public men and statesmen of each generation
to grapple with and solve the problems of their own times.
The relation of the black to the white race, or the proper status of the
coloured population among us, was a question now of vastly more importance
than when the old Constitution was formed. The order of subordination was
nature's great law; philosophy taught that order as the normal condition
of the African amongst European races. Upon this recognized principle of
a proper subordination, let it be called slavery or what not, our State
institutions were formed and rested. The new Confederation was entered
into with this distinct understanding. This principle of the
subordination of the inferior to the superior was the "corner-stone" on
which it was formed. I used this metaphor merely to illustrate the firm
convictions of the framers of the new Constitution that this relation of
the black to the white race, which existed in 1787, was not wrong in
itself, either morally or politically; that it was in conformity to
nature and best for both races. I alluded not to the principles of the
new Government on this subject, but to public sentiment in regard to
these principles. The status of the African race in the new Constitution
was left just where it was in the old; I affirmed and meant to affirm
nothing else in this Savannah speech."
� Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens: His Diary kept when a prisoner
at Fort Warren, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1910., pp 172-174,
entry for 5 June 1866
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Robert L. Dabney - Stonewall Jackson's Chaplain and prominent Presbyterian
theologian."The black race is an alien one on our soil; and nothing except his
amalgamation with ours, or his subordination to ours, can prevent the rise
of that instinctive antipathy of race, which, history shows, always
arises between opposite races in proximity."
"All our statesmen, of all parties, had taught us, not only that the
reserved rights of the States were the bulwarks of the liberties of the
people, but that emancipation by federal aggression would lead to the
destruction of all other rights. A Clay, as much as a Calhoun, proclaimed
that when abolition overthrew slavery in the South, it also would equally
overthrow the Constitution. Calhoun, and other Southern statesmen, with a
sagacity which every day confirms, had forewarned us, that when once
abolition by federal aggression came, these other sure results would
follow: that the same greedy lust of power which had meddled between
masters and slaves, would assuredly, and for the stronger reason, desire
to use the political weight of the late slaves against their late
masters: that having enforced a violent emancipation, they would enforce,
of course, negro suffrage, negro eligibility to office, and a full negro
equality: that negro equality thus theoretically established would be
practical negro superiority: that the tyrant section, as it gave to its
victims, the white men of the South, more and more causes of just
resentment, would find more and more violent inducements to bribe the
negroes, with additional privileges and gifts, to assist them in their
domination: that this miserable career must result in one of two things,
either a war of races, in which the whites or the blacks would be, one or
the other, exterminated; or amalgamation. But while we believe that "God
made of one blood all nations of men to dwell under the whole heavens,"
we know that the African has become, according to a well-known law of
natural history, by the manifold influences of the ages, a different,
fixed species of the race, separated from the white man by traits bodily,
mental and moral, almost as rigid and permanent as those of genus. Hence
the offspring of anamalgamation must be a hybrid race. . .incapable of the career of
civilization and glory as an independent race. And this apparently is the
destiny which our conquerors have in view. If indeed they can mix the
blood of the heroes of Manassas with this vile stream from the fens of
Africa, then they will never again have occasion to tremble before the
righteous resistance of Virginia freemen; but will have a race supple and
vile enough to fill that position of political subjection, which they
desire to fix on the South.�
� In Defense of Virginia and the South
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General Robert E. Lee, Confederate States Army
"My own opinion is that, at this time, they cannot vote intelligently, and
that giving them the right of suffrage would open the door to a great
deal of demagogism, and lead to embarrassment in various ways. . .I think
it would be better for Virginia if she could get rid of them. . .I have
always thought so!""The one excuse for slavery which the South can plead without
fear before
the Judgment bar of God is the blacker problem which their emancipation
will create.""You will never prosper with the blacks, and it is abhorrent to a
reflecting mind to be supporting and cherishing those who are plotting and
working for your injury, and all of whose sympathies and associations are
antagonistic to yours. I wish them no evil in the world � on the
contrary, will do them every good in my power, and know that they are
misled by those to whom they have given their confidence; but our
material, social, and political interests are naturally with the whites."� R.E. Lee
to his son, R.E. Lee, Jr., March 12, 1868
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"I have always observed that wherever you find the Negro, everything is
going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see
everything around him improving."� RE Lee to his cousin Col Thomas H. Carter June 1865
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H.W. Henry, Captain, 22nd Alabama Infantry, CSA:
"Some entire companies and regiments come from sections of the country
where a negro was rarely seen, and they fought against interference in the
affairs of their State, dictation by an alien people, invasion and
subjugation of their country, and against the fear of negro equality in
political and social affairs."
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~ A Rebel Arkansawyer ~
Major General Patrick Cleburne, CSA--- "........... separation. If both of these are denied us, I am with Arkansas in weal or woe. I have been elected and hold a commission of captain of the Volunteer Rifle Company of this place and I can say for my company that if the Stars and Stripes become the standard of a tyrannical majority, the ensign of a violated league, it will no longer command our love or respect but will command our best efforts to drive them from our state."
Major General Patrick Cleburne C.S.A.--- "I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or in defeat...... I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and inaugurate a servile insurrection, murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone."
Major General Patrick Cleburne, CSA--- "As to my own position, I hope to see the Union preserved by granting the South the full measure of her constitutional rights. If this can not be done, I hope to see all the Southern States united in a new confederation and that we can effect a peaceable separation. If both of these are denied us, I am with Arkansas in weal or woe. I have been elected and hold a commission of captain of the Volunteer Rifle Company of this place and I can say for my company that if the Stars and Stripes become the standard of a tyrannical majority, the ensign of a violated league, it will no longer command our love or respect but will command our best efforts to drive them from our state."
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