There is a lot of hate out there spewed towards Lincoln. I would
suggest that Lincoln was the most honorable and important
President in US history. was the vice president of the south,
under Jefferson Davis. He was also a former member of the Whig
Party, which we now know as the Republican Party. But he was pro
slavery, since he owned 34 slaves. On the brink of the Civil
War, on March 21, 1861, Stephens gave his famous Cornerstone
Speech in Savannah, Georgia. In it he reaffirmed that
"<b>African Slavery … was the immediate cause of the late
rupture and present revolution." He went on to assert that the
then-prevailing "assumption of the equality of races" was
"fundamentally wrong." "Our new [Confederate] government is
founded … 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 normal condition," and, furthermore,
"With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or
poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with th