Here's Alter pages : We more typically remember Lincoln's speeches for their eloquence. Much of this, as I have suggested, is achieved through his intuitive feel for appropriate diction and rhythmic emphasis, manifested, most famously, in every phrase of the Gettysburg Address, as in the grand concluding sweep of 'we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain,' moving on to the climactic anaphora, 'that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Many people, I suspect, assume that the opening phrase, 'Four score and seven years ago,' is explicitly biblical, though in fact it is merely modeled on the 'three score and ten' of the King James Version, a phrase that, given the sacred status of the formulaic number seventy, appears times in the translation.
The Hebrew actually has no equivalent expression and simply says 'seventy,' as does Tyndale's translation, which was a principal source for the King James translators. Randall: I'm supposed to recite this in an hour, and I won't do it-- I will read it. That's because, when I got up this morning and went to practice the speech I've known for decades, I began: "Our Father, Who art in Heaven I was able to walk in Lincoln's footsteps yesterday and attend the th commemoration today.
Very moving and beautifully done. The National Park Service--hurt by the recent sequestration--remains a jewel. Jim McPherson and Sally Jewell offered excellent keynotes. Lauren Pyfer, high school junior, gave her winning "modern interpretation" of the Address and stole the day, though Justice Scalia was pitch perfect as well before swearing in 16 new citizens. The biggest question in the crowd--in a year when the nation needs much binding and reminding: Why wasn't the President there?
That's interesting about Obama not being there. Wonder why? I can see how that would be easy to mistake with the Lord's Prayer. Similar rhythm. I'm angry about it, though. As a political historian who knows this country's politics better than almost anyone, I am convinced that politics has gotten to insanity at this point, and it infuriates me. There is a frenzy over why the president didn't use the words "under God," at the same time there is yet another outright challenge to the Constitution in an attack on the president's right and duty to name judges.
You don't have to like any president of any party, but when you start attacking the Constitution, it seems to me more worth paying attention to than whether or not the president used two words-- ones he uses all the time-- in a tape directed by one of the nation's strongest filmmakers.
Thanks, Professor Richardson! What the Licensed Battlefield Guides say is that Lincoln may have inserted "under God" extemporaneously during the Address after having toured the battlefield that morning-and especially visiting the place where his friend, General Reynolds, was killed.
In any case, I thought Obama's written tribute which was read aloud resonated nicely with the audience and stood above the politics of the day. Thank you for this. I'm inclined to be cynical about idolizing characters from the past including Lincoln - just human like the rest of us - but these words, like Jefferson's despite the fact that we know he meant men only, but not "All men" are transcendent and eternal questions that we need to continue to fight for today.
And appending the "Fun" video gives me new appreciation for one of my son's favorite bands, which I can also be cynical about. My problem. Post a Comment. You cannot download interactives. The Civil War was a brutal war that lasted from to It left the south economically devastated, and resulted in the criminalization of slavery in the United States.
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Skip to content. Photograph of lithograph by Heritage Images. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Classroom. In three days of fighting, 51, Americans on both sides—Union and Confederate—were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. 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.
Lincoln is not in Gettysburg to celebrate the Union victory. Rather, he explains that those who fought were the loyal guardians of the American Experiment.
With their blood, they watered the tree of liberty. As Lincoln himself knew, how could his words ever compare to that sacrifice? Ironically, the world remembers what our sixteenth president said, but do we remember the actions of those who fought at Gettysburg?
Lincoln points to them, and challenges the living. Are we prepared to heed their example to do what is necessary to advance the founding ideals of the Declaration of Independence? As after previous battles, thousands of Union soldiers killed at Gettysburg were quickly buried, many in poorly marked graves.
In the months that followed, however, local attorney David Wills spearheaded efforts to create a national cemetery at Gettysburg. Everett, the former president of Harvard College, former U. Grant , had both occurred on the same day: July 4, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When he received the invitation to make the remarks at Gettysburg, Lincoln saw an opportunity to make a broad statement to the American people on the enormous significance of the war, and he prepared carefully.
Though long-running popular legend holds that he wrote the speech on the train while traveling to Pennsylvania, he probably wrote about half of it before leaving the White House on November 18, and completed writing and revising it that night, after talking with Secretary of State William H. Seward , who had accompanied him to Gettysburg. On the morning of November 19, Everett delivered his two-hour oration from memory on the Battle of Gettysburg and its significance, and the orchestra played a hymn composed for the occasion by B.
Lincoln then rose to the podium and addressed the crowd of some 15, people. He spoke for less than two minutes, and the entire speech was fewer than words long. 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.
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