Gettysburg Address, 146 years ago today...
gimmesometruth27
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there really is not a ton to discuss about this speech, i just felt like posting it. it was given 146 years ago today in the middle of the civil war. there were over 50,000 union and confederate dead, wounded, and missing over 2.5 days of fighting. lincoln gave these remarks at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery for the Union war dead. in my opinion it is one of the most eloquent speeches ever given. the guy that spoke before lincoln spoke for ouer 2 hours, while lincoln spoke for just over 2 minutes. there is something about this speech that arouses emotions in me every time i read it or hear it read. lincoln said that years from now nobody would remember what was said there, but we would remember what the soldiers had done there. i think he was wrong because we remember what they did, AND what he said.
the following is a transcription of his final handwritten version of the speech as the paper appears.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, , 186 .
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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 it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, to stand here, we here be dedica-ted to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.
for more info see the link...
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=36#
the following is a transcription of his final handwritten version of the speech as the paper appears.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, , 186 .
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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 it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, to stand here, we here be dedica-ted to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.
for more info see the link...
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=36#
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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haha, i like to fancy myself as sort of a civil war buff. i have been to a few of the battlefields and memorials and had relatives fight for the union. i knew a lot more about it when i was younger, but i like to research and read and watch tv programs about it. life was so much different then...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
yep. they'd be their own damn country full of religious crazies doing their crazy religious thing somewhere else instead of fucking up my government all the time.
Cool man... I actually used to live on a civil war battle ground when I lived in GA. New hope to be exact.I think it was a 5 day battle that happened there. It's a couple of miles from Kennesaw Mt. But even better I now live in Charleston S.C. If you like civil war history than you need to come here. I live about 3 miles from the Battery. It's where the first shot was fired. I've seen The Hunley,been to Fort Sumter, and Just about all the plantations and historic homes.
thats pretty cool. charleston is on my list of places to see. one day i will get there, lots of history there. i also want to get to antietam, bull run, go back to shiloh, and finally see gettysburg before they screw it up and develop the whole area.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."