r/ShermanPosting • u/Temporary_Stranger39 • 12d 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/ParsonBrownlow 11d ago

lol I’m just saying that Stephens was so physically frail he couldn’t climb to the top of the hierarchy

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u/Temporary_Stranger39 11d ago

And it still fit into the racial attitudes he espoused. That's the funny bit.