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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... land for miles around , which would , of ne- cessity , be farmed over in a short time . The graves , where marked at all , were only temporarily so , and the marks were liable to be obliterated by the action of the weather . Such was ...
... land for miles around , which would , of ne- cessity , be farmed over in a short time . The graves , where marked at all , were only temporarily so , and the marks were liable to be obliterated by the action of the weather . Such was ...
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... land on Cemetery Hill , at the apex of the triangular line of battle of the Union army , were pur- chased by Pennsylvania for this purpose . There were stone fences upon these grounds , which had been advantageously used by the infantry ...
... land on Cemetery Hill , at the apex of the triangular line of battle of the Union army , were pur- chased by Pennsylvania for this purpose . There were stone fences upon these grounds , which had been advantageously used by the infantry ...
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... land to be paid for by , and the title to be made to , the State of Pennsylvania , and to be held in perpetuity , devoted to the object for which purchased . The grounds embrace about seventeen acres on Cemetery Hill , fronting on the ...
... land to be paid for by , and the title to be made to , the State of Pennsylvania , and to be held in perpetuity , devoted to the object for which purchased . The grounds embrace about seventeen acres on Cemetery Hill , fronting on the ...
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... land . I think it would be showing only a proper respect for the health of this community not to commence the exhuming of the dead , and removal to the cemetery , until the month of November ; and in the mean time the grounds should be ...
... land . I think it would be showing only a proper respect for the health of this community not to commence the exhuming of the dead , and removal to the cemetery , until the month of November ; and in the mean time the grounds should be ...
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... lands and ages , we unite in the ascription , " 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 tribulation , that we may be able to comfort ...
... lands and ages , we unite in the ascription , " 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 tribulation , that we may be able to comfort ...
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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.