Abraham Lincoln was nominated by his Republican Party for President, which was founded upon the principles of the Abolition of Slavery and Equality for all. That Republican Party honored their commitment then and continues the same commitment of those principles to this very day! Could the reason that Mr. Obama refused to attend Gettysburgs 150th anniversary be as simple as Party Politics? Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was praised for reinvigorating national ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice amid the Civil War, which had torn the country into pieces. “President Lincoln sought to heal a nation’s wounds by defining what a nation should be,” said Gov. Corbett, calling Lincoln’s words superb, his faith deep, and his genius profound. “Lincoln wrote his words on paper, but he also inscribed them in our hearts.” Echoing Lincoln, keynote speaker and Civil War historian James McPherson said the president spoke in November 1863 at a time when it looked like the nation “might indeed perish from the earth.” “The Battle of Gettysburg became the hinge of fate on which turned the destiny of that nation and its new birth of freedom,” McPherson said. In the July 1863 battle, considered the turning point of the war, Union forces fought back a Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania. Lincoln’s speech was delivered at the dedication of a national cemetery for the battle’s casualties. In the short oration, Lincoln spoke of how democracy rested upon “the proposition that all men are created equal,” a politically risky statement at the time. Slavery and the doctrine of states’ rights would not hold in the “more perfect union” of Lincoln’s vision.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:03:58 +0000