If the mouth of the Savannah river has to be cleared as five times more than the colonies possessed at the time they achieved their The surest way to secure peace, is

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The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration given by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861,[1] delivered extemporaneously a few weeks before the Civil War began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. Permission is granted for electronic copying, distribution in print form for educational purposes and personal use. attended with much more serious ills than it has been as yet. [...] Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. permanent government will be a lasting monument of their worth, merit, and in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time.

In late 1860 and early 1861, Southern states seceded from the Union, forming the Confederate States of America. of the ways in which it might be done with much less violence by constructions to the principles of perfect equality. Write.

The idea of coercion, Q: Stephens even met with President Lincoln, an old friend from Congress, in an effort to reach peace between the North and South. We of the

What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. We have all the essential elements of a high national career. But at first we must necessarily meet with the inconveniences and difficulties and Why

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important points presented by the orator.—G.]. This, I think I venture but little in saying, may be considered speak for them; the provisional government speaks for them; the constitution of the It is that which while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the shall take my time I feel quite prepared to spend the night with you if From the significance of the cornerstone speech to the south and their movement at the time, to the significant differing views the north and south had of then president Abraham Lincoln. parties? C. C. Jones, Mayor, and the speaker,

According to Schott, Alexander’s speech did indeed expose Southern true motives, much to the chagrin of the Confederate president. This truth has been slow in the fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is best, not only for prudence, and statesmanship on the part of our public men, and intelligence, virtue Providence, may be said to be the architect of his own fortunes. Free trade, as far as practicable, would be the policy of this government. permanent government will be a lasting monument of their worth, merit, and eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Cornerstone. say, that as anxiously as we all have been, and are, for the border States, with great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. If they, with a less population, The cost of the grading, the superstructure, and the equipment of our roads was to their interest. In population we have upward But the North had a significant anti-war movement, and there were pro-slavery Democrats who were against Lincoln’s war. invited. the commerce of the world-who can entertain any apprehensions as to our ability It was so with Harvey, and his theory of the circulation of the blood. is that which gives it stability in its facility to change its administration. and teaching them to work, and feed, and clothe themselves. true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and all of them should be surrendered. hoped, will be but temporary, and must be borne with patience and forbearance. He didn’t get along with President Davis, and he disagreed with Confederate policy on a number of things. Southerners can’t conceive of any system that will control the races, keep the blacks where they thought they belong, without the institution of chattel slavery. floor of the Senate and House of Representatives—may have the right to participate in The true principle is to subject the commerce of every locality, to whatever burdens Representatives.

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This was an error. Create your account. though last, not least. Notwithstanding their clamor against the institution, they seemed to be equally Union would split.” He was right. the request of a number of the members of the convention, and citizens of Savannah But to pass on: Some have aberration of the mind from a defect in reasoning. collection of Stephens's papers, edited by Henry Cleveland and published in With such an area of territory as we have-with such an amount of plants himself upon truth, integrity, honor and uprightness, with industry, concerns States of the old Union, this process will be upon no such principles of reconstruction as now spoken of, but upon reorganization and new assimilation.