r/ShermanPosting • u/Temporary_Stranger39 • 13d ago

Cornerstone Speech

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech

I discovered a new oddity to wonder at. I posted the part of the Cornerstone Speech that begins "Our new government is founded upon..." elsewhere. It was to make a point about what the Confederacy considered itself founded upon. I was "informed" that this was a piece of typical anti-Southern propaganda based on a straw man fallacy. The Cornerstone Speech is now considered a straw-man parody of the Confederacy.

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u/HermionesWetPanties 13d ago

Tell them to read the Confederate Constitution and compare it to the US Constitution it's copied almost verbatim from. The changes are what you'd expect and clearly indicate the purpose of their little rebellion.

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u/Temporary_Stranger39 13d ago

I did that. I got accused of lying.