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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 battlefield 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 usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedomand that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” - Abraham Lincoln
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 battlefield 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 usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedomand that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” - Abraham Lincoln
Well, I’m simply restating things that were said on a History doc I saw years ago, more than likely while playing my 3DS. lol
Because Anti-Racism is totally a 21st Century invention guys! And everyone knows that until the 90’s, America was like a WhiteKitten commission for women!
Abolitionism was not some small movement at the time. Not going to comment on Lincoln’s attitudes though. I’m not well researched enough on that matter.
That too, yes. Perceptions aside, the North still fought, for numerous reasons, as well as to declare these people as another type of man. All due to extremely similar characteristics, and their literal assimilation to American culture.
Later on, science would prove white and black, or perhaps as I would want to say, “Seashell” and “Charcoal”, are genetically the same, save for the arduous external difference.
(Admittedly, I never learned what makes pigments different between each geographical population. :j )
@SuperPinkiePie64
Its a strange issue this. He was no more racist than your average American, which was, at the time, hella racist. It was a different time with different moralities and a totally different view of the world. One of the reasons things have gotten so twisted in the modern perception of the conflict. Slave owners fought on both sides. The supreme commander of the Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, was one of them.
Historians also claim his pop poll was very low before his assassination.
He didn’t campaign against it at all. In fact he originally proposed his own version of the 13th amendment that constitutionally protected the institution of slavery in the hopes of getting the south to calm down and stay in the union without fuss (while paying the absurdly high taxes they were saddled with at the time.) The text of the amendment as proposed by mister Lincoln was pretty straightforward: “No amendment shall be made to the constitution which will authorize or give Congress the power to abolish or interfere within any state with the domestic institutions thereof, including that a person held to labor or service by laws of said state.” So yes, Lincoln himself proposed an amendment that would make the abolition of slavery by amendment impossible, in return for them behaving and paying their taxes. This amendment was penned in March of 1861, a month before the ware began.
He was your typical politician and enjoys a totally unwarranted saint hood in history. Then again as they say, history is written by the victors, and his side won big.
Lincoln wasn’t hate-ridden, at least not from what I’ve heard, but he campaigned to end slavery because he expected them to emigrate back to Africa.
I’d presume it’s harder to explain than explaining that Franklin was an intense poon hound. Partly because the History docs I saw I saw years ago. :3
The Whitest Kids U Know sketch, “How Abraham Lincoln Really Died”.
on the cusp of something, I’m gonna slam their ass down with facts.