Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

On this date in 1863

Posted on 11/19/2018 8:13:49 AM PST by Bull Snipe

in the town of Gettysburg, PA. President Lincoln delivers a short speech dedicating the new National Cemetery there.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: abrahamlincoln; civilwar; gettysburg; gettysburgaddress; godsgravesglyphs; greatestpresident; history; lincoln; pennysylvania; thecivilwar

1 posted on 11/19/2018 8:13:49 AM PST by Bull Snipe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Bull Snipe

Someone from my family was there that day. He is still there.


2 posted on 11/19/2018 8:15:37 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wastoute

a fitting repose for brave men.


3 posted on 11/19/2018 8:24:17 AM PST by Bull Snipe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bull Snipe

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


4 posted on 11/19/2018 8:26:58 AM PST by minnesota_bound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: minnesota_bound

No I,I,I,I etc that obama would have done without a mention of what or the why of what happened.


5 posted on 11/19/2018 8:29:31 AM PST by minnesota_bound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: minnesota_bound

We had to memorize the Gettysburg address in High School history circa 1963


6 posted on 11/19/2018 8:29:41 AM PST by Bull Snipe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Bull Snipe

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.


7 posted on 11/19/2018 8:31:48 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bull Snipe

8 posted on 11/19/2018 8:32:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bull Snipe

As read by Johnny Cash-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpmi8IoAmOk


9 posted on 11/19/2018 8:37:46 AM PST by matthew fuller (https://patriotpost.us/alexander/13407-the-battle-of-athens-tennessee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks Bull Snipe.

10 posted on 11/19/2018 8:54:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SunkenCiv
I'm not finding a good clip of it so there may be copyright issues, but if you get a chance watch Ruggles of Red Gap, a mostly forgotten screwball western comedy from the 1930's. Charles Laughton portrays an English butler an American won in a card game and took with him to the western frontier.

There is a scene in a saloon where none of the Americans can remember what it was Lincoln said. Ruggles, the English butler, transfixes the Americans by reciting the Gettysburg Address from memory.

The movie plays a lot with themes of class and place in society versus making one's way in a new land where birth and class don't matter.

In real life Laughton fell in love with America and became a citizen.

11 posted on 11/19/2018 2:35:19 PM PST by colorado tanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: colorado tanker

He was THE British actor, before Olivier came (ahem) along. Sounds like the show within a show in Seinfeld, no insurance, sentenced to be his butler. ;^)
Ruggles Of Red Gap 1935 HD

Ruggles Of Red Gap 1935 HD

12 posted on 11/19/2018 10:05:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: colorado tanker
I'm going to try it again when I can just have it running in another room and half-listen to it. I couldn't get through the first five minutes of it.

13 posted on 11/20/2018 7:34:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson