Thursday - August 05, 2010

Ouch

One of those little bits of history that many would prefer to sweep under the rug. From today’s post at Grand Old Partisan, written by Chuck Devore (R-CA) who takes Ron Paul to task for some really stupid remarks he made about Lincoln and the Civil War.

Note: South Carolina voted for secession on December 20, 1860. The steamship Star of the West, acting as a supply vessel for Fort Sumter, was fired on by both The Citadel and by Fort Moultrie on January 9, 1861. Lincoln became President on March 4, 1861. By that time 7 states had seceded and formed the Confederacy before he took office. 17 days after Lincoln’s Inauguration, Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederacy, gave what is called ”the cornerstone speech”, and in it he said:

“The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution—African slavery as it exists amongst us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.  This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution… The prevailing ideas entertained by (Thomas Jefferson) and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically… Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong.  They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races… Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests 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 normal condition.”

Fort Sumter was shelled April 12, 1861. Stephens’ claim to a bloodless revolution didn’t last even four weeks.

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