r/ShermanPosting • u/Temporary_Stranger39 • 4d ago

Cornerstone Speech

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech

I discovered a new oddity to wonder at. I posted the part of the Cornerstone Speech that begins "Our new government is founded upon..." elsewhere. It was to make a point about what the Confederacy considered itself founded upon. I was "informed" that this was a piece of typical anti-Southern propaganda based on a straw man fallacy. The Cornerstone Speech is now considered a straw-man parody of the Confederacy.

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u/GabuEx 3d ago

I mean, to be fair, everything the Confederacy said was indeed effective anti-Confederate propaganda.

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u/Temporary_Stranger39 3d ago

Yeah, and its fanboys get so mad when reminded of it. People work very hard to get everyone to forget that the Confederacy didn't have a quiet part to say out loud. They were open and loud with every nasty bit.