ONE OF THE UGLIEST MEN TO HAVE EVER LIVED

Meet Alexander Hamilton Stephens.



Ugly, ain't he? Like death warmed up.

But to add to this undead ugliness is the fact that Stephens was Vice President of the Confederate States of America. He owned a plantation with over 30 slaves which was called...can you believe this...Liberty Hall!!

In his Cornerstone speech, Stephens stated that the Civil War was over slavery. Not tariffs. Not states rights. Slavery. Have we all got that now?

OK?

OK.

In his Cornerstone speech we find such gems of white supremacy as these:

...Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone 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 moral condition. This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

...That we, in maintaining slavery as it exists with us, were warring against a principle-a principle founded in nature, the principle of the equality of man. The reply I made to him was, that upon his own grounds we should succeed, and that he and his associates in their crusade against our institutions would ultimately fail. The truth announced, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics as well as in physics and mechanics, I admitted, but told him it was he and those acting with him who were warring against a principle. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.

...Many Governments have been founded upon the principles of certain classes; but the classes thus enslaved, were of the same race, and in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. The negro by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system. The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material-the granite-then comes the brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is the best, not only for the superior but for the inferior race, that it should be so. It is, indeed, in conformity with the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances or to question them. For His own purposes He has made one race to differ from another, as He has made "one star to differ from another in glory."

This speech by Stephens exposes his white supremacy and his belief that God had created Africans for the white man to use for slavery. But in doing so Stephens also exposes the moral bankruptcy of religion.