We can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. Those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. We have come to dedicateĪ portion of that field as a final resting place for We are met on a greatīattle-field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and soĭedicated, can long endure. Four score and seven yearsĪgo our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, andĭedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. What it's trying to say and why it's so important. To just take a little time to read the Gettysburg Address and to interpret it, line by line, to give a better sense of Has become one of the most famous and important pieces of rhetoric in American history. That Lincoln says here in the Gettysburg Address The importance of the battle and the importance of theĬemetery that is being dedicated. He is just supposed to giveĪ few appropriate remarks while the famous oratorĮdward Everett gives the really bombastic, two hour long speech that is going to rile up the crowd and make everyone understand Not even the headliner at this ceremony ofĭedicating this cemetery. When this speech is given and Lincoln himself is And as were saying in the last video, it's been about three and a half months since the Battle of Gettysburg So, we've been talking about the Gettysburg Address which was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19th, 1863.
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