Address of Hon. Edward Everett, at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, 19th November, 1863: With the Dedicatory Speech of President Lincoln, and the Other Exercises of the Occasion, Accompanied by an Account of the Origin of the Undertaking ... and by a Map of the Battle-field and a Plan of the Cemetery |
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... blood of some of the purest patri- ots that ever died , should perish or endure , -rolled back the tide of an invasion , not less unprovoked , not less ruthless , than that which came to plant the dark banner of Asiatic despotism and ...
... blood of some of the purest patri- ots that ever died , should perish or endure , -rolled back the tide of an invasion , not less unprovoked , not less ruthless , than that which came to plant the dark banner of Asiatic despotism and ...
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... blood of gallant and loyal men , I feel , as never before , how truly it was said of old that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country . I feel , as never before , how justly , from the dawn of history to the present time , men ...
... blood of gallant and loyal men , I feel , as never before , how truly it was said of old that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country . I feel , as never before , how justly , from the dawn of history to the present time , men ...
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... blood . This was declared by the Charleston press to be the object for which Sumter was to be assaulted ; and the emissaries sent from Richmond , to urge on the unhallowed work , gave the promise , that , with the first drop of blood ...
... blood . This was declared by the Charleston press to be the object for which Sumter was to be assaulted ; and the emissaries sent from Richmond , to urge on the unhallowed work , gave the promise , that , with the first drop of blood ...
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... blood for the coun- try , - forget not WHO it is that will hereafter say to you , " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my BRETHREN , ye have done it unto me . " And now , friends , fellow - citizens , as we stand ...
... blood for the coun- try , - forget not WHO it is that will hereafter say to you , " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my BRETHREN , ye have done it unto me . " And now , friends , fellow - citizens , as we stand ...
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... blood of Hampden or Russell . I call the war which the Confederates are waging against the Union a " rebellion , " because it is one , and in grave matters it is best to call things by their right names . I speak of it as a crime ...
... blood of Hampden or Russell . I call the war which the Confederates are waging against the Union a " rebellion , " because it is one , and in grave matters it is best to call things by their right names . I speak of it as a crime ...
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19th of November Address Agent arms artillery Battle of Gettysburg battle-field beneath bless blood brave burial Cashtown cavalry CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG Cemetery Hill centre Chambersburg chief citizens civil command commenced Confederate consecration Constitution contest DAVID dead dear sir delegated duty EDWARD EVERETT Eleventh Corps Emmittsburg enemy eral Ewell Ewell's corps Father favor fell fellow-citizens field force foreign power forever Fredericksburg friends glorious glory Governor Curtin Governor of Pennsylvania grounds Hancock Heaven honored graves Hooker Hospitals invitation July land Lee's Little Round Top lives loyal Marshals Maryland Meade memory ment military monument morning mourn National Cemetery o'clock occasion officers patriotic portion position President prisoners Rebel army Rebel Batteries rebellion remains republican Union retreat Reynolds Ridge road Round Top scene Seminary Ridge soldiers solemn South sovereign Taneytown three days tion tribute troops Union army United Washington Williamsport WINFIELD SCOTT wounded
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Page 84 - 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 the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 26 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 84 - ... that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 21 - When we part to-morrow night, let us remember that we owe it to our country and to mankind that this war shall have for its conclusion the establishing of the principle of democratic government, — the simple principle that whatever party, whatever portion of the community prevails by constitutional suffrage in an election, that party is to be respected and maintained in power until it shall give place, on another trial and another verdict, to a different portion of the people. If you do not do...
Page 83 - Here, where they fell, Oft shall the widow's tear be shed, Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead; The orphan here shall kneel and weep, And maidens, where their lovers sleep, Their woes shall tell. "Great God in Heaven! Shall all this sacred blood be shed? Shall we thus mourn our glorious dead?
Page 37 - States, inasmuch as before that time Washington would be captured, and the capital of the nation and the archives and muniments of the government would be in the possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared by the Rebel Secretary of War, at Montgomery, in the presence of his Chief and of his colleagues, and of five thousand hearers, while the tidings of the assault on Sumter were...
Page 80 - Rebellion to delude and inflame must cease. There is no bitterness on the part of the masses. The people of the South are not going to wage an eternal war for the wretched pretexts by which this rebellion is sought to be justified. The bonds that unite us as one people, — a substantial community of origin, language, belief, and law (the four great ties that hold the societies of men together); common national and political interests; a common history; a common pride in a glorious ancestry; a common...
Page 52 - This was the only advantage obtained by the rebels to compensate them for the disasters of the day, and of this, as we shall see, they were soon deprived. Such was the result of the second act of this eventful drama — a day hard fought, and at one moment anxious, but, with the exception of the slight reverse just named, crowned with dearly earned but uniform success to our arms, auspicious of a glorious termination of the final struggle. On these good omens the night fell.
Page 72 - July with any other feeling? A sad foreboding of what would ensue, if war should break out between North and South, has haunted me through life, and led me, perhaps too long, to tread in the path of hopeless compromise, in the fond endeavor to conciliate those who were predetermined not to be conciliated.