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    Post The Gettysburg Address - November 19, 1863

    Happy Anniversary Gettysburg Address.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

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    Four score 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
    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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.



    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
    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 honored 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 of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people,
    for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


    Abraham Lincoln

    November 19, 1863

    http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/...gettysburg.htm


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    Some would find this an offense against the First Amendment: "that this nation, under God, 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".
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    The University of Wisconsin, Madison, students want to banish Lincoln from the campus.
    Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes​

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    Forbes report on this last October: Abe Lincoln Is Next On The Cancel Culture Chopping Block

    ...To be clear, these statues of Lincoln are not copies of the controversial statues in Boston and Washington DC that show Lincoln freeing a kneeling slave. The objections to those statues refer to the portrayal of the freedman. The student demands in Madison and the physical destruction in Portland are directed at Lincoln himself.

    What did the “Great Emancipator” do to be put on the cancel culture chopping block? Among his perceived sins is his treatment of Native Americans. In Portland, the words “Dakota 38” were spray-painted on the base of Lincoln’s toppled statue. This refers to the execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians in the aftermath of the United States-Dakota War and the highly problematic trials of Native Americans for killings during that war.

    As described in the Stanford Law Review: “The fighting began . . . when a group of Dakota attacked the Redwood (Lower) Agency. . . Thirteen Americans were killed in the attack on the Agency, seven more were killed while fleeing from the settlement. . . From the outset, the Dakota also attacked other American settlements and settlers who had not yet taken shelter behind the fortifications being constructed by the citizens of the towns. Many of the settlers were reportedly unarmed and taken by surprise. In most cases, the Dakota killed the men and took the women and children prisoners.”

    The Native Americans saw themselves as fighting a war to defend their land and people against the incursion and abuse they suffered at the hands of Westerners. Also, the trials of individual Native Americans for these killings were severely lacking in due process and failed to distinguish between what today would be called war crimes and killings that are regrettable but legal in the field of war. Several hundred of them were sentenced to death without having had a fair opportunity to defend themselves.

    To his great credit, despite the burdens of the Civil War, Lincoln personally reviewed hundreds of conviction records and refused to sign off on the vast majority of the sentences. He eventually signed thirty-eight of the sentences once he determined that in those cases the defendants received a fair trial. Far from seeking political gain, Lincoln willingly absorbed political punishment to protect the rights of the accused Dakota Indians. When told that his actions cost him votes, he replied that he would not “hang men for votes.”

    Another objection to honoring Lincoln is that under his administration land grabs and mistreatment of Native Americans continued. However, Lincoln was aware of the injustices and, while fully occupied with the Civil War, pledged to improve the treatment of Native Americans after the war. He said: “If we get through the war and I live, this Indian system will be reformed.” But, as everyone knows, he was assassinated just a few days after the Confederacy surrendered and never had the opportunity to make good on his promise....
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    Greatest speech ever made here.
    Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
    Pick your enemies carefully.






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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    The University of Wisconsin, Madison, students want to banish Lincoln from the campus.
    And rocks.

    https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/e...c521d1dc6.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post

    I read about that.

    Totally stupid.

    When a huge rock offends people..........

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    The University of Wisconsin, Madison, students want to banish Lincoln from the campus.
    Fire the management and professors and get conservatives in there to teach the students.
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