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March 21
The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration given by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861.
The speech, delivered extemporaneously a few weeks before the Civil War:
—Began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter —Defended slavery as a fundamental and just result of the inferiority of the black race —Explained the fundamental differences between the constitutions of the Confederate States and that of the United States —Enumerated contrasts between Union and Confederate ideologies —Laid out the Confederacy's rationale for seceding from the U.S.
Stephens stated that "our new government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man".
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