A history of the United States . as elaborated and completed, was adopted onthe 11th of March. Stephens, as Vice President, was for-mally inaugurated on the 10th of February, and Davis, asPresident, on the 18th. Thus the Confederate government wasfully installed two weeks before the inauguration of Lincoln. 445. Stephens and Lincoln on the Causes of the War. — Soonafter the inaugural ceremonies in the South, the newly chosen Vice President, in a speechat Savannah, explained thegrounds of secession. Afterreferring to Thomas Jeffer-son, he said: The prevail-ing ideas entertained byhim and most o
A history of the United States . as elaborated and completed, was adopted onthe 11th of March. Stephens, as Vice President, was for-mally inaugurated on the 10th of February, and Davis, asPresident, on the 18th. Thus the Confederate government wasfully installed two weeks before the inauguration of Lincoln. 445. Stephens and Lincoln on the Causes of the War. — Soonafter the inaugural ceremonies in the South, the newly chosen Vice President, in a speechat Savannah, explained thegrounds of secession. Afterreferring to Thomas Jeffer-son, he said: The prevail-ing ideas entertained byhim and most of the lead-ing statesmen of the timeof the formation of the oldConstitution, were that theenslavement of the Africanwas in violation of the lawsof nature; that it waswrong in principle, socially,morally, and politically. . .Our government is foundedupon exactly the oppositeidea; its foundations arelaid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negrois not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to. Alexander H. Stephens. Monroe, 18()5-1867; was indicted for treason in 1866; was released on bail inthe following year, and was never pnt on trial. 1 Born in Georgia, 1812; died, 1883. Graduated at University of Georgia,1832; prominent lawyer, speaker and Whig member of Congress from 1843 to1859; strongly supported Douglas and opposed secession in 1860; sided with hisstate and became Vice President of the Confederacy, 1861-1865; often differedfrom Davis; sought to bring about peace in 1864; was imprisoned in 1865, butwas soon released; was congressman from Georgia, 1875-1882; elected gov-ernor of Georgia, 1882; wrote the important War between the States. § 446] SECESSION OF THE SOUTH. 347 the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This,our new government, is the first, in the history of the world,based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moraltruth. ^ For the purpose of reducing the causes of the warto a nutshell, this utterance
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