The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens: Picks from the Writings and Speeches of the Confederacy’s First Vice President

Was Accomplice Vice President Alexander H. Stephens actually a “racist” Dixiecrat who believed that slavery was the “cornerstone” of the Confederacy, as pro-North writers assert? Was he truly responsible of “treason” in opposition to the U.S., an “anarchist” who ought to have been hanged for main the secession of the Southern states? In fact not. And The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens: Picks from the Writings and Speeches of the Confederacy’s First Vice President, by award-winning Southern historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, proves it!
    This well-researched work, a companion to Colonel Seabrook’s The Alexander H. Stephens Reader, gives practically 700 footnoted entries that reveal the genuine man, one fully reverse of the unfavourable picture of Stephens fabricated by enemies of the South. Often called one in every of America’s most kindly and charitable people, he was a real good friend of the black man, in addition to a pro-Unionist who at first campaigned in opposition to Southern secession. Additionally a superb thinker, spell-binding orator, and prodigious creator, he was, in truth, one in every of historical past’s most extraordinary, attention-grabbing, honorable, and noble figures.
    Comply with Stephens in his personal phrases, as he takes us via the event of the U.S. after the American Revolution, and into the rising bitter sectionalism between the South and the North within the 1840s and 1850s. Get a you-are-there view of your complete “Civil Battle,” from the disastrous election of massive authorities Liberal Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, to the tragic fall of the Confederacy and Stephens’ unlawful imprisonment within the Spring of 1865.
    Comply with the frail however feisty Conservative Georgia governor – who turned down affords to run for each U.S. president and C.S. president – from so-called “Reconstruction” and the rebuilding of the South (which he helped direct), via the postwar administrations of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur. Alongside the way in which, not solely can we be taught the true trigger behind Lincoln’s Battle, however Stephens additionally lays out the details regarding Southern slavery and his “Cornerstone” speech, whereas forcefully defending the constitutional proper of secession.
    Comply with the lifelong bachelor-politician (who served within the U.S. authorities, in a single capability or one other, from President Andrew Jackson to President Chester A. Arthur, a span of forty-seven years) as he discloses his on a regular basis ideas and private opinions on all the things from the climate and canine to self-government and states’ rights, on this profusely illustrated one-of-a-kind guide that’s already turning into a typical in Southern literature.
    With the publication of The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens, the anti-South motion’s vicious slander in opposition to “little Aleck,” as he was lovingly recognized to his kin, pals and constituents, is now powerless. Because of Colonel Seabrook, the status, honor, and reminiscence of Accomplice Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens has lastly been absolutely redeemed.  Obtainable in paperback and hardcover.
    Colonel Seabrook’s different works embody: Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative; Lincoln’s Battle: The Actual Trigger, the Actual Winner, the Actual Loser; All We Ask is to be Let Alone: The Southern Secession Truth E-book; Accomplice Monuments: Why Each American Ought to Honor Accomplice Troopers and Their Memorials; The Unholy Campaign: Lincoln’s Legacy of Destruction within the American South; The Nice Yankee Coverup: What the North Doesn’t Need You to Know About Lincoln’s Battle; Confederacy 101: Superb Info You By no means Knew About America’s Oldest Political Custom.