Posted on 11/19/2019 10:34:27 AM PST by Bratch
Gettysburg Address as recited by Jeff Daniels.
The full text of the Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery at the scene of the Battle of Gettysburg of the American Civil War on November 19, 1863.
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 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.
A politician who gets to the point and doesn’t ramble on for an hout listening to the sound of his own voice.
He would never be successful today.
LOL!!
Gracie, shut up and sit down.
The "Rebels" armies were led by a slave holding General from Virginia.
So Lincoln is talking about an even where 13 slave states got free from an oppressive Union.
Sure he would. Since his first sentence is a bald face lie, but spoken so smoothly people failed to notice, he'd be a natural lying politician in the USA today.
He deliberately misled people about the 13 slave owning states trying to get their independence from England as being about freedom for slaves, and that is absolutely wrong.
The Declaration of Independence was not about freedom for slaves. It was about Independence from the United Kingdom. Making it about slavery is an attempt to mislead people.
The briefness of the speech is one reason why there are no photographs of its being delivered. It was so short that most people hadn’t really settled in to listen to it. The speech before his, given by a famous orator, Edward Everett had lasted two hours, as most speeches of the time tended to do. Later, Everett supposedly told Lincoln that his speech (Lincoln’s) did a better job of marking the occasion.
You hate the US, just like the left. You are yhe same as them.
Four score and six years later the rebel army was also led by a slave-owning general from Virginia.
Pointing out the reality of what happened does not equate to hate for the US. What I hate is our elite "betters" telling us how we must live, while forcing us to pay them, and today it comes from New York and Washington DC.
And so it did in 1860 as well.
The problem in this nation is that a small cabal of people located roughly in the corridor between Washington DC and Boston Massachusetts are forcing the rest of us to send money to Washington that gets redistributed into their pockets, and then they want to lecture us on our morality.
No Thanks. Flyover America knows the difference between right and wrong, and many of us realize they are taking our money and giving us nothing we want in return.
Here's his first sentence:
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.
Where is the "lie" -- much less the "bald face lie" -- in that sentence?
Only eleven, and they lost their rebellion while the men fighting four score and seven years earlier won theirs.
But they don't want to see them, and so they don't.
Not as close as you're willing to admit.
But they don't want to see them, and so they don't.
Maybe they just don't have your odd-ball view of things?
Right here:
"dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
The newly formed government was clearly not dedicated to this principle. The 13 slave owning states were making no statement on the institution of slavery, and all were reading that verbiage as applying only to white English subjects. There was absolutely no intent to apply this idea to slaves, yet Lincoln is citing it as if that was the only thing our new government was created to accomplish.
Either the man is a moron, or a liar, and if you've read his writings you can clearly see he was no moron, so the only possibility remaining is that he was deliberately trying to deceive people as to the intent of our founders in creating the USA out of 13 slave holding states.
Did that clear it up for you?
My Wife and I read this aloud at a dusk visit to the Lincoln Memorial (we were both in Radio) by the end we were surrounded by children with a sense of awe on their faces. A few minutes later we visited “the Wall” and as we approached it, it started to sprinkle on what was a partly cloudy night... I will never forget that visit to DC..
Thanks Bratch.
The newly formed government was clearly not dedicated to this principle.
The Declaration of Independence stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”
Now it took a while to teach certain sections of the country that all men were indeed equal and put into place laws to gve effect to that self-evident truth.
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