Posted on 02/24/2010 6:09:09 AM PST by NoGrayZone
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.
That a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish.
We have come very close to seeing that happen. What these statists never realized is that WE THE PEOPLE would rise up against them.....and call ourselves The Tea Party.
There is a lot of talk recently about "leaders" of the tea party.
Another deadly mistake they make is NOT realizing we DO have leaders..... EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IS A LEADER OF THE TEA PARTY.
I will see all of you once again in DC on April 15.....God Bless America!!
Amen!
A broken clock is right twice a day. Lincoln was a tyrant and would probably be considered a Marxist by today’s standards. Heck he corresponded with Marx. Today’s tea party represents small government, not expanding government like under Lincoln. It is about more personal liberty, not stepping on personal liberty like Lincoln.
To be correct, a STOPPED clock is right twice a day.
Other public reaction to the speech was divided along partisan lines. The next day the Democratic-leaning Chicago Times observed, "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States."
It has always been of interest to me that Lee’s great confederate army retreated from Gettysburg on July 4th, 1863 and Vicksburg also fell that day to cement the USA as one undivided nation...also, both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, arguably at the roots of our two political parties, both died on July 4th; exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Providence?
I would say so!
Wow! Lincoln was/is the best thing that ever happened in the history of the United States. Had it not been for Lincoln we would now be speaking either German or Russian as there would have been absolutely no way that World War II could have been won considering what would have been a divided nation of a USA and a CSA along the Mason/Dixon line...no great American industry, enterprise, or military capable force (and, for the record, you're corresponding to a proud great-great-grandson son of a Confederate soldier)!
Other than causing the unnecessary deaths of 600,000 Americans in a needless war, thereby destroying two republics in the process, the USA and the CSA, I have no problem with him.
Likewise Cromwell’s two greatest victories were on September 3rd and he died on that day. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same calendar day but Spain and England had the Gregorian/Jullian calendar split so it was not the same solar day.
In the South the War is called the Second American Revolution among a host of other names. So the significance could be that the date lead to the formalizing of the 1st and death of the second to bring us to Obama today.
You're right the Northern USA would had probably sided with Hitler. The CSA with GB. I never thought of that. /sarc
You left off the notes Lincoln crossed out before the speech:
“....and the bartender says ‘That’s not a duck!’ (Wait for laughter)”
(Wish I could find that Far Side cartoon)
That's a very far fetched statement. It is much more likely that the USA and the CSA would have been close trading partners and allies. If the US is an ally of Great Britain after our revolution, certainly the North and the South had much more in common.
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Your statist God is being discussed, you must be in heaven....
Yes I’ll bet that sent shivvers right up and down your spine when you saw that.
You can see how some of his contemporaries thouth he was a sleeze. He was for slavery before he was against it. He thought secession legal before he fought a war against it. He sounds like John "I was in Vietnam" Kerry.....
Patrick Henry’s Give me Liberty or Give me Death does it for me.
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