macmillan cherry >> stephen patrick cherry >> vernon paul cherry >> nester julio chevalier swede chevalier >> and my brother, of peace. >> and my sister, with a heavy hearts. >> alexander> dorothy j. chiarchiaro >> luis alfonso chimbo >> robert chin >> wing wai ching >> nicholas paul chiofalo >> john chipura >> peter a. chirchirillo >> catherine chirls >> kyung hee cho >> abul k. chowdhury >> mohammad salahuddin chowdhury >> kirsten l. christophe pamela chu >> steven chucknick >> wai chung >> christopher ciafardini >> alex f. ciccone >> frances ann cilente >> and my father carmine and now jason david cain. i love you so much. i will always keep loving you. >> and my uncle. we miss, and we love you. your spirit lives with us forever. >> elaine cillo >> edna cintron >> nestor andre cintron iii >> robert dominick cirri >> juan pablo cisneros-alvarez >> benjamin keefe clark >> eugene clark >> gregory alan clark >> mannie leroy clark >> sara clarke. thomas r. clark >> christopher robert clarke >> donna marie clarke >> michael j. clarke >> suria rachel emma clarke >> kevin francis cleary >> james d. cleere >> and my mother, kirsten christoff. rest in peace. >> and my father,

perhaps it is most succinctly stated by the vice president of the confederacy, alexander stephens, aormer congressman from georgia, who says in a speech right before the war begins, that in the north they believe in racial equality, and they are opposed to slavery. and in the south, now i'm paraphrasing for a second, we understand, and then uses this word, that the cornerstone of the confederacy, that the cornerstone of the confederacy is that the north is wrong about racial equality and we are right about slavery. slavery is the cornerstone of the confederacy. that is what the south secede for. now, the problem in understanding this is that when lincoln asked for volunteers to preserve the union, he doesn't say this is a crusade against slavery because he doesn't believe he has the constitutional or legal power to end slavery. and furthermore he is desperately hoping to keep the upper south states, virginia, north carolina, tennessee and arkansas in the union, as well as maryland, delaware, kentucky and missouri. and, of course, after the war begins, the most southern of those, virg