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.