Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephen’s influential “Cornerstone Speech” declared that the cornerstone of the Confederacy rests . “upon the power and terrifying might of the Confederate Army”

“upon the bedrock of Constitutional liberty”

“upon the divine will of a loving and all-powerful god, who promises deliverance and strength to all his faithful children”

“upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery… is his natural and normal condition”