Posted on 07/04/2011 6:57:54 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
In his Gettysburg Address, …… Abraham Lincoln found the precise words to describe America’s dire situation. Here they are. Hear them, and savor them. “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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot 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.”…..
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Ah. Father Abraham on July 4. Wonder where THIS thread will go?
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If we, as Americans, teach our children the countries history, how we got to where we are and why, the country will do just fine. If we neglect our history, their future is in the hands of those that are willing to destroy this country of ours.
Lincoln’s head is on a penny so debased that it cannot be cast in copper ... a fitting tribute in my view.
The Battle of Gettysburg was July 1-3. Lee began heading back to Virginia on July 4, 1863, the 87th anniversary of the Declaration. This was the same day that Vicksburg surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, leaving the Mississippi river entirely under US control.
Well put.
The ironic thing is that it was the South that was fighting for government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The North was fighting against a people’s right to self-determination in this instance.
Amen.
And for eighty-five years after that the city of Vicksburg, Miss. didn’t celebrate The Fourth of July.
Yeah, except for the slave-owning thing, right?
Owning slaves didn’t seem to keep the colonists from fighting for liberty and the right to self determination. And there were slaves in every colony at that time.
Now, thanks to the Illinois Butcher™, we're all slaves of FedGov™.
Good stuff.
It’s good to keep track of important politically incorrect historical stuff. Thanks for sharing. :-)
The Founding Fathers recognized that slavery was incompatible with the new nation created in 1776. They were unsure exactly how it could be ended. It was no coincidence that the anti-slavery movement sprang up in Europe as well as America after the American Revolution. The Confederacy was an attempted counter-revolution against the American Revolution, (read Stephens’ Cornerstone speech.) The slave owners were not believers in states rights or individualism, rather they wanted a more powerful national government that would enforce human slavery in every state.
The core of a magician's trick is to draw your attention over here while the real maneuver is over there. You sir, are the perfect dupe for the rulers in top hats and tails.
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