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Article: SUNDAY FORUM: SPEECH REMINDS US WHY CONFEDERACY WAS WRONG.(COMMENTARY)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2000
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The following comes from a speech by Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States of America. His speech sheds light on exactly what ideals we honor when we fly the Confederate flag, or designate a month to honor those who fought for the Confederacy.
``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. Jefferson in his forecast has anticipated this as the `rock upon which the old Union would split'. . . The ...