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Title: Alexander Stephens Vicepresident of the Confederacy


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Alexander Stephens
Vice-president of the Confederacy
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  • Alexander Stephens
  • Slavery and the Confederacy (1861)
  • With the Independence of the Confederate States
    of America, the South will no longer suffer from
    the oppressive tariffs of the United States
    federal government. (p. 62.)
  • The foundations of the Confederacy rest upon the
    great truth that the negro is not equal to the
    white man that slavery, subordination to the
    superior race is his natural and moral
    condition. (pp. 62-63.)
  • The negro by nature, or by the curse against
    Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he
    occupies in our system (i.e. slavery). (p.
    63.)
  • The truth of the Negros inferiority has been
    slow in the process of its development, like all
    other truths in the various departments of
    science. (p. 63.)
  • Whites teach Blacks how to work, as well as how
    to feed and clothe themselves. (p. 63.)
  • Our object is Peace, not only with the North,
    but with the world The ideal of coercing us, or
    subjugating us, is utterly preposterous. (p. 65.)

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Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer
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  • Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer
  • Slavery a Divine Trust Duty of the South to
    Preserve and Perpetuate it
  • The Souths providential trust is to conserve
    and to perpetuate the institution of slavery as
    now existing.
  • The South needs slavery to support its material
    interests.
  • White slave owners act as guardians of their
    black slaves. Blacks are like helpless children
    who the slave owner protects.
  • Freedom would be their doom.
  • Slaves form parts of our households, even as our
    children.
  • The world should FEAR abolition. The world is
    more dependent on slavery for its wealth than
    ever, and if slavery ends, the world economy will
    totter.
  • The South defends the cause of God and religion,
    since the Abolition spirit is undeniably
    atheistic.

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Rabbi Morris J. Raphall
POINT 1 The Bible does not condemn slavery.
However, it does condemn coveting anothers
property, including anothers slaves.
POINT 2 Abolitionists, such as Reverend
Henry Ward Beecher, are inventing new sins when
they claim that slavery is evil. By doing this
they are insulting and exasperating thousands of
God-fearing, law-abiding citizens and have
pushed the country toward civil war.
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Reverend Henry Ward Beecher POINT 1 The
whole nation is guilty regarding
slavery. POINT 2 Our civilization has not
begotten humanity and respect for others rights,
nor a spirit of protection to the weak.
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