This Day in History: 1863: The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
“Fourscore 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 honoured 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 freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
This Day in History | Kevin | 
November 19, 2009 9:56 am
If you missed the Gettysburg meeting, you can find Lincoln’s PowerPoint at:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/gettysburg-address-november-19-1863/
On November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
In case you forgot the battle of Gettysburg saw 45k men killed, injured, captured or went missing.
In case you forgot the battle of Gettysburg ended the Civil War. A war in which a president of the United States raised an Army to invade his own country!!! A war in which took the lives of more than 620k Americans.
Some call Lincoln the Greatest president of all time. Some call him the Great Emancipator. Others refer to him as brilliant.
But did you know that others referred to him as a war criminal?
In fact this day in history marked the beginning of the end for a president who invaded his own country
The judge, counsel, jury, and executioner deliberated for nearly 5 months before reaching a decision.
In APRIL of the following year the sentence was carried out and the life of a president who invaded his own country was terminated.
The judge was none other than John Wilkes Booth….only now you know the rest of the story!!!
Mike,
Thanks for your comment, now crawl back under your rock.
Kevin
If Northerners … had peaceably allowed the seceders to depart, the result might fairly have been quoted as illustrating the advantages of Democracy, but when Republicans put empire above liberty, and resorted to political oppression and war … It was clear that nature at Washington was precisely the same as nature at St. Petersburg (Russia) …. Democracy broke down … when it was upheld, like any other Empire, by force of arms.
I memorized the Gettysburg Address when I was a kid growing up in the public schools of Tennessee and assumed the things it said were true. That’s when I was a child.
Looking back, from the perspective of having studied American history for more than sixty years, I realize how false Lincoln’s speech really was. Dishonest Abe Lincoln was a master of political spin, whose words were the polar opposite of his deeds. Government of the people, by the people and for the people was exactly the thing he was trying to crush in his unconstitutional and brutal attack on the Confederate nation.
Lincoln’s words are a mockery when one considers that he held 13,000 northern political prisoners, without trial or due process of law - just because they disagreed with his illegal war.
Famous American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), said of the Gettysburg Address: “The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination - that government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
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Since i was in 4 year high school i memorize this Lincoln’s address and today we study. This Lincoln’s addres help us to know and understand the American History.