Nov 19, Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
November 19th, 2010 - 10:54 pm ICT by Angela Kaye MasonNov 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One hundred and forty-seven years ago today, on November 19, 1863, the sixteenth president of the Unites States of America gave his now famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery, which is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
America was still in the middle of the devastating Civil War. They were not yet even called the “United” States, that did not come until the war had ended. Four months prior to the delivery of the famous speech, in early July of that year, fifty-one thousand soldiers, both Confederate and Union, were taken prisoner, injured, or died at the Battle of Gettysburg. The ceremony which President Lincoln would be speaking at was to honor a new cemetery which was for the dead soldiers of the Union.
During his short speech, President Lincoln mentions the the Founding Fathers of their great country had wanted America to be a place of Liberty, where “all men are created equal”. He went on to say that the lived of those brave soldiers who had died there could only be honored if the nation lived up to that suggestion, that all were created equal. He also went on to proclaim that “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.”
A copy of the full Gettysburg Address can be seen here.
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