![]() ![]() 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. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. 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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. ![]() Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. So, in this video, I'd like to just take a little time to read the Gettysburg Address and to interpret it, line by line, to give a better sense of what it's trying to say and why it's so important.Īll right, so let's see if I can do this justice.įour 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. He is just supposed to give a few appropriate remarks while the famous orator Edward Everett gives the really bombastic, two hour long speech that is going to rile up the crowd and make everyone understand the importance of the battle and the importance of the cemetery that is being dedicated.īut, somehow, the 272 words that Lincoln says here in the Gettysburg Address has become one of the most famous and important pieces of rhetoric in American history. So, we've been talking about the Gettysburg Address which was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19th, 1863.Īnd as were saying in the last video, it's been about three and a half months since the Battle of Gettysburg when this speech is given and Lincoln himself is not even the headliner at this ceremony of dedicating this cemetery. ![]()
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