Alexander Stephen's Cornerstone Speech

Alexander H. Stephens was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America and a democrat. The “Cornerstone Speech” was very famous because Stephen mainly focuses in the struggle between the north and south which was, slavery. In the document written by Alexander H. Stephens, the “Cornerstone Speech” of March 21, 1861 was significant because he announced that the new government believed on the idea that blacks were inferior to whites. This fundamental truth was the crucial difference between the northern and southern society. Slavery played a major role in the southern economy on a day to day basics.
Stephen’s main argument is that the American revolution had been based on a proposition that was
(https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/) The carton is significant because the emancipation proclamation is relevant to the cartoon in terms of how the north and the south viewed Lincoln for his proclamation. Lincoln wanted for all slaves to be free but the south did not agree with him. The cartoon implies that there was no compromise that could be done with the south. In the picture on the left the word peace is written which represents the north and on the right the word war which represents the south. (Lincoln’s cartoon) The south views Lincoln as someone that stomps on them like shown in the cartoon and thinks that they are trash. (https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/) They were wrong because Lincoln only wanted peace. Within the newly-formed Confederate States of America the south would be most hostile towards Abraham Lincoln because he wanted to abolish slavery. In 1861, both the northerners and the southerners didn’t exhibit any sensitivity and tolerance in dealing toward women and African Americans. They did not care at all and those two thing to them were inferior to white