Alexander Stephen was the vice president throughout the American War. This speech was held in Savannah ,after seven southern states had seceded from the Union. On his Cornerstone speech on 21 March 1861, he gave an outstanding speech on topics like the changes in the new government, possible plan for future, and others. Here in this speech, slavery is taken as a cornerstone.
The new government had transitioned almost into an entirely new government. The new government had kept the power of revenue to last forever, and allowed the imposition of no duty. All the businesses stood up for the same broad principles of quality. The new government was also founded exactly on the opposite idea of people not being equal to each other. Here they believed that their new government was the first in the world to be based upon moral truth and one of the major change that will be keeping aside all the agitating questions related with african slavery.
The new government had changed the length of the tenure of the presidential office, making it 6 year instead of 4, which they believed to be effective against corruption and personal-benefits. Also, provision had been made where the head of department could speak for themselves and administration unlike old constitution, where the secretary of treasury had no opportunity like this. Another feature of the new …show more content…
The division of power and states in the government among the territory is also one of the major reason for Confederate States of America. The dominance of northern territory, the question of building class interest, the discrimination in industries under the exercise of revenue power, the power of congress to regulate commerce, and the agitating questions for slavery all collectively gave southerns the way out of the