Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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ReplyDeleteWhat’s the matter? He hurt your Wittle Feelings?
Delete272 words of the greatest remembrance ever spoken.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Did you wear out a box of crayons before you were able to formulate that response?
DeleteSophistry
ReplyDeleteExactly. He was killing thousands to implement his version of the country. The country still suffers from it.
DeleteIn fact, Lincoln made every effort to avoid war. The south started the war at Ft. Sumter with enthusiasm, confident in their ability to win. Before his assassination, Lincoln was already planning how best to reconcile with his countrymen in the south.
DeleteYet we had slavery followed by segregation.
ReplyDelete...and quite soon abolished, and over decades engaged in successive healing. hang your loaded diaper somewhere else.
DeleteBest speech ever.
ReplyDeleteAmen...
ReplyDeleteCW, no, Lincoln started the War of Northern Aggression. Why would the South begin a bombardment of Sumter when they were promised to abandon the structure within a few days. Because Lincoln sent 3 fleets of ships to invade Charleston. Lincoln was a very terrible man and Davis would be more appropriate in giving the Gettysburg address.
ReplyDeleteDuring Jackson's administration, South Carolina was organizing state militia for what was at that time expected to be an imminent secession from the union. It was only then narrowly averted, only to bubble up again later in the 1860's. The union troops had already abandoned the onshore forts in Charleston, and the three ships you mention were for resupply only. There is no way even if full of troops only three ships would be enough to attack and occupy Charleston. The advantage always (nearly) goes to the defender. The honor of one of the first shots on Ft. Sumter was given to Edmund Ruffin, on account of him being a famous secessionist. Nope, the south started it, due to the irreconcilable differences between the north and south. Perhaps it had to happen.
DeleteNo, those were not just supply ships. That is the propaganda.
DeleteEvery time I hear the Gettyburg address, I think of the Monty Python skit ending with "let's not argue about who killed who . . ."
ReplyDeleteHistory is only useful if it is read and understood.
ReplyDeleteThe history of that era has been written by the winners. Read THE REAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Thomas Di Lorenzo. The truth is out there.
DeleteI'm not a fan of Abe Lincoln, having grown up in his first namesake town, but that was quit eloquent.
ReplyDeleteIt is a sign of our times that so many feel emboldened to stand against one of the greatest American presidents in history.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that many of these same people that despise a man that fought against slavery and for our country's unity over 150 years ago today stand side by side with a president that doesn't believe that all men were created equally and that somehow believes that American has blue and red states and not United States of America.
How things have changed inside the Republican party
ghostsniper is still hurt by the first line. He still doesn't believe that all men are in fact created equal.
DeleteThe eighth and ninth words in the second paragraph… wrong, it was not a civil war, it was a war between two countries. The southern states had every right to secede as guaranteed by the constitution. They could’ve left for no other reason than that they didn’t like the cut of Lincoln’s suit.
ReplyDeleteLincoln lied with those two words and used them to justify everything that he did. And he did a LOT of very bad things.
Great speech, for what it’s worth, but he was an evil man.
Anon, stop answering your own sock puppet posts, or at least use a different IP address. Jeez!
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