EV-TH12 FR HQ #96
Is his speech, spoken during desperate times by an embattled leader to a weary nation, President Lincoln implored the gathered to remember what had happened on that hallowed ground and what was still at stake..
We are again living in historic times.. What our country does in the next 2 months, can be remembered as the turning point in this experiment we started in 1776, and tested several times during the course of our illustrious history..
If you do nothing else, VOTE, and get everyone in your family, and friends to cast their vote for our country to survive..
Lincoln was and continues to be a national disgrace. Slavery is wrong, but the federal government has no right to force ANY state into their point of view. Slavery would have died of natural causes, but Lincoln decided that 600,000 citizens needed to die instead. He was no Republican as I define it. He was a liberal then, now, and by any standard, and he perpetrated one of the great crimes against the federalist ideals of the founders.
the "house divided" speech is even more relevant.
I’m pretty sure the reason it’s rembered is that it’s easy for teachers to get kids to memorize. It is nonetheless great political oratory in that it stirs the soul while making no sense. (Government by the people was going to die? Huh? How? What about the earth’s other democracies? Seriously, what are you talking about?)
Lincoln was a humble man, and this is an ironic line from his most famous speech.
It's important for us to remember... thanks carlo3b.