horrible rendition. Lincoln appears entirely too at ease and confident and outgoing. I'm certain that his persona at this moment was one of sadness meshed with an undying resolve. A very somber tone would be more akin to reality.
Seven score and seven years ago today -- November 19, 2010 -- Lincoln gave us The Gettysburg Address. It truly stands the test of time as one of the great speeches in American history. I was looking for a video to hear these words aloud. Thanks for the upload!
haha I doubt this speech was originally given in such a happy go lucky manner. I seem to recall that this speech was given on a somewhat somber and grave occasion. I'm sure it wasn't said quite so carefree lol.
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery. --- March 14, 1861
What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races. --- 7-17-1858, fr. a speech delivered in Springfield, Ill.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, or of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. --- September 15, 1858
"Ashokan Farewell" is a piece of music composed by Jay Ungar in 1982. It was later used as the title theme of the television miniseries The Civil War, ...
Read true historical accounts. It was a stunning success. It was noted that many people were crying when he finished. At first Lincoln thought the speech a failure because there was no applause. But it was soon known by word of mouth to have greatly effected everyone present. I can remember studying it in my university speech class. We were given the task of learning it. All 22 class members gave it. The speech is so well written hearing all 22 presentations it never lost its power.
No he made sure that the great constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence were actually followed. Slaves were human beings, and to follow the true meaning of the great United States it was his duty to free them in a land where all men are created equal. Otherwise, we aren't the America we claim to be: a nation where everyone has equality. Plus, slavery wasn't the biggest cause of the civil war.
Hey, you uneducated ignorant fuck: where do you live? It's probably some part of the country that just got heard 9/11 happened. Go fuck your cousin you bastard. And then it's baboon's like you that want to profess some word of God.
Lincoln's view of slavery: "I hate it [slavery] because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world -- enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites -- causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty ---".
We need a leader that can actually lead and do what is right for as many people as possible, reguardless of whether his faith drives him to do so or not.
To know the real reasons the southern states seceded from the Union all you have to do is read their "Declarations of Causes of Seceding States". Here is an excerpt:
"The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party. While it attracts to itself by its creed the scattered advocates of exploded political heresies...., anti-slavery is its mission and its purpose."
"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." proposed 13th Amendment 3/2/61
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so....
I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution..has passed Congress,to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States,including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said,I depart from my purpose,not to speak of particular amendments, so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable." Lincoln 3/4/61
The confederates themselves asserted that one of the main reasons they seceded was because the North was threatening their institution of slavery. So who are you going to believe the actual secessionists in 1860, or modern day neo-confederate revisionists who state that the Civil War was not fought over slavery.
I tend to give more credence to the confederates who seceded and the reasons they gave for seceding.
Jackson, I hate to tell you but in the 1860's, all white americans were racists compared to today. We have came a long way to creating equality and one of the main reasons was men like Lincoln. A white leader willing to stick his neck out for an unpopular view. Without him and others we would only now be feeling the way that we felt in the 1950's. Grow up.
3LTNT: Yeah & Abe was even worse than the average then. He didn't stick his neck out for Black Americans one iota. He used them in any way he could think of. Your idea of "race relations" is so far off. You don't believe the war was fought over slavery in the south do you? That the war occurred was the main reason it took 100 years for Black Americans to get the still terribly flawed separate but equal laws now in place. The GOVERNMENT feeds off of "racialism". They NEVER cure it, but use it.
One of the main reasons the South fought the war was to protect slavery but they were also pretty upset about a President being elected without one vote from the south.And Lincoln, whatever his reasoning for the emancipation may have been, he took massive critisism for it.That alone is more than most did.Even if it was to regain the edge in the war, as a white man in the 1860's it was a bold move & yeah we still have flawed laws, but where would we be if the emancipation hadn't been till later?
3L: The problem you guys are having is working backward from your worship of a mass-murderer for banks & corporations. You only look for evidence to prop up your hero. The U.S. was lagging behind the rest of the world in this matter. Lincoln cared less than NOTHING for Black Americans & GAINED prestige & leverage by pretending to. All the Feds ever had to do for them was uphold the Constitution EQUALLY. That has never been what they wished. They enslaved EVERYONE,they're doing it today in Iraq.
You really are ignorant, if he didn't care why did he stand up for slaves when no one cared? Many politicians and including Lincoln knew that they were most likely lose if they supported anti-slavery. So unless Lincoln was taking a gamble, your wrong.
shiron: When calling someone "really ignorant" it's crucial that you spell everything correctly.
"YOU'RE wrong"
You though, you're right, Lincoln was never anti-slavery. He was anti-slavery regarding the Western Territories for racialist reasons, being a racialist. And the Emancipation Proclamation was a political ploy that didn't free any slaves.
And I am ignorant of whatever propaganda was fed to you, thankfully.
No states ultimately seceded. What was the big risk? That to subjugate all Americans he'd have to hire even more thugs & conscript even more of the poor to murder even more people? I think he had it in him. I will agree that he was a daring, cunning & extremely successful mass-murderer, but I think he may have been more worried about Britain than Kentucky, so how is that risking "everything", orthodox simpleton?
As I was eating breakfast, the full idiocy of your comment just struck me. He of course, wished to risk as little as possible in this case, which is why the Proclamation ONLY applied to slaves in areas he DIDN'T have control over. So obviously, he was pretty worried about Kentucky as well as Britain.
Scholar, Lerone Bennett Jr. (who happens to be a Black American) on the typical response of the Lincoln Cult to a challenge, "find a slave or a former slave or, better, a Black officeholder to say that he adores Lincoln and doesn't care what people say"
This was an excellent sincere visual presentation in mode, delivery and pace by Mr. Getty. Thank you for all your group does to keep Mr. Lincoln's words alive for us.
To: Jackson32 - Unlike many of his successors, Lincoln had the capacity to grow in the office. Was Fredrick Douglass wrong? He grew over time to respect Lincoln greatly with the upmost sincerity. He openly wept when the President was assassinated - because Douglass knew Lincoln's heart and he also knew the Black cause would be lost, which it was, as much lesser men took over reconstruction.
I ask you, is Fredrick Douglass not a better judge than any living man today?
more gravitas in your delivery please. less homey familiarity. nix the hokey fiddle music. This was a state address, a solemn occasion of grand proportions. The music and the country granpa actor don't fit the occasion.
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,"
"There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
The historical record shows that Lincoln was anti-slavery. This is one of the things Lincoln said on the subject,"I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,"
"There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
Abraham Lincoln
It does not matter what else he said since there is no way in the world a non racist person would EVER say something like this.
The issue at hand during the Civil War was slavery. The seceding states themselves acknowledge this when they stated, "The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party. While it attracts to itself by its creed the scattered advocates of exploded political heresies..., anti-slavery is its mission and its purpose."
Lincoln was a peaceful soul, he hated slavery, he thought it was a despicable evil, he believed wholeheartedly all men were created equally, all men have the right to eat the bread they toil over and yes he was a 19th century man, who did not believe blacks had the same capacity as white men. Would you in 19th century North or South?
Fun fact: Lincoln had a high voice, like comedically high. However, this high voice allowed the speech to be carried over large distances. All dramatic protrayals of him thus far have given him big booming voices, far from the truth.
No because I bother reading things outside of the internet. Try it sometime. We know of Lincoln's voice the same way we know of people's reaction to his speech.
I love that speech, but I think that he should have spoken it slower with more conviction and feeling. The crowd, too, could have been a little more emotional. A polite golf clap does not seem to be a correct response to such an emotionally charged speech. And about memorizing it: remember that it is one of the shortest speeches ever written. Try memorizing Harrison's inaugural address (three hours)for a challenge.
This is the closest to be acceptable, as the Speech of Lincoln. the other sound like if they are about to sleep and that speech was in no way like that!
It's pretty close to the way I've always imagined Linclon's voice. Good emphasis of the words. He needs to talk a little slower and be a little more dignified. Lincoln could do that when he had to.
States rights.Did America not gain independence from Britain on the point of states rights.You denied the south the right of self determination,without such a right there is no democracy.
Read the Declaration of Independence to find out what we fought Britain for. It wasn't "state rights." And we're not a democracy; we're a republic. Don't they teach that in school anymore?
Please explain to a foreigner whats so special about this speech. Its just full of platitudes and small talk. So democracy is FOR the people - please, who DIDN'T say that?
In 269 words he invoked the principles of human equality descibed in the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant, defined democracy in terms of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and defined republicanism in terms of freedom, equality and democracy.
Jim Getty, what a guy. Met him a few years back at a Remembrance Day dedication for the GAR memorial. Nice, nice fellow. I'd love to believe ol' Abe was just like him.
As for the voice, my understanding is that only Hal Holbrook came closer to what Lincoln'c contemporaries descrived.
I think he read it too fast.
am221 11 months ago
horrible rendition. Lincoln appears entirely too at ease and confident and outgoing. I'm certain that his persona at this moment was one of sadness meshed with an undying resolve. A very somber tone would be more akin to reality.
correcturself 11 months ago
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Seven score and seven years ago today -- November 19, 2010 -- Lincoln gave us The Gettysburg Address. It truly stands the test of time as one of the great speeches in American history. I was looking for a video to hear these words aloud. Thanks for the upload!
joekiddone 1 year ago
ASHOKAN!
xoxrockprincesskatie 1 year ago
omg
lilrockpebbles 1 year ago
What the fuck !!
thats not Abe Lincoln !!!
jibilo4 1 year ago
lol
BLVColetrain 2 years ago
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Infinif28 2 years ago
@Infinif28 are you slow?
Dagreenmanator 2 years ago
wat do u mean?
Infinif28 2 years ago
Did they have electronic microphones back then?
hallj100 2 years ago
apparently so
hbrtmran 2 years ago
haha I doubt this speech was originally given in such a happy go lucky manner. I seem to recall that this speech was given on a somewhat somber and grave occasion. I'm sure it wasn't said quite so carefree lol.
dbmcmillan 2 years ago 2
when he is talken he says so words that are not in the speech
cooldude33456 2 years ago
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Lincoln on Slavery:
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery. --- March 14, 1861
What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races. --- 7-17-1858, fr. a speech delivered in Springfield, Ill.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, or of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. --- September 15, 1858
procommenter 2 years ago
Awesome but that is not Abraham Lincoln you phoneys
Boozi6 3 years ago
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Infinif28 2 years ago
Lincoln was killed in 1865. The Civil war was from 1861 to 1865. Please buy a pre-bellum history book and start reading.
HuasoPodrido 2 years ago
dude chill out i studied about lincoln like in 6th grade im in 12 now
Infinif28 2 years ago
please, go back and sue your english teachers!
HuasoPodrido 2 years ago
wasn't this called the union back then?
cybill234 3 years ago
hey I know this song and really like it, can anyone tell me what the ballad is called?
rokevella 3 years ago
"Ashokan Farewell" is a piece of music composed by Jay Ungar in 1982. It was later used as the title theme of the television miniseries The Civil War, ...
moonlightmedia 3 years ago
Thank You
rokevella 3 years ago
I played this in my Orchestral class. It is a beautiful piece.
WiPFiSIiS 3 years ago
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SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
brainerdrebel 3 years ago
BrainLESS rebel
colt4667 2 years ago
Hey,you cut out the part when Lincoln does a Black Panther pose and says,"...and don't 'dis my homies!"
MightyMacabre 3 years ago 2
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This address is a piece of crap.
Zeldovich 3 years ago
correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Lincoln speech was first met with lukewarm respnse?
Tommy12435 3 years ago
Tommy:
That is true. Edward Everett Spoke first.. Long rambling speech reminiscent of the times.
Lincoln's speech was over so quickly, people were stunned. Then the words sank in.. till to this day, every word has been analyzed over and again.
Much like Hamilton/Jay.Adams Federalist papers
If words can create nations, It is these words, and his second innuagural speech that remade america in a post civil-war era.
Awesome Awesome words. Truly a Man for His Time, and a Man for ALL Time.
chester1080 3 years ago
Read true historical accounts. It was a stunning success. It was noted that many people were crying when he finished. At first Lincoln thought the speech a failure because there was no applause. But it was soon known by word of mouth to have greatly effected everyone present. I can remember studying it in my university speech class. We were given the task of learning it. All 22 class members gave it. The speech is so well written hearing all 22 presentations it never lost its power.
charles43110 3 years ago
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lincoln shouldnt have freed the niggers
sk8er98567 3 years ago
he didn't just free them !! Lincoln made sure, that those who opposed freedom for slaves were killed and buried !!
kashsoldier 3 years ago
No he made sure that the great constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence were actually followed. Slaves were human beings, and to follow the true meaning of the great United States it was his duty to free them in a land where all men are created equal. Otherwise, we aren't the America we claim to be: a nation where everyone has equality. Plus, slavery wasn't the biggest cause of the civil war.
lastminuteregret 3 years ago
Hey, you uneducated ignorant fuck: where do you live? It's probably some part of the country that just got heard 9/11 happened. Go fuck your cousin you bastard. And then it's baboon's like you that want to profess some word of God.
Signofarchangel 3 years ago
Lincoln's view of slavery: "I hate it [slavery] because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world -- enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites -- causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty ---".
jagosto1 3 years ago
we need a God fearing leaders today, because this world is dying (going wicked).. let us ask God to raise rightful leaders....
09194809599 4 years ago 2
AMEN!!!. 09
beotchslayer2000 4 years ago
hallelujah!
09194809599 4 years ago
We need a leader that can actually lead and do what is right for as many people as possible, reguardless of whether his faith drives him to do so or not.
Beefstew2011 3 years ago 2
good :P
xinku07 4 years ago
Is this Bill Clinton ?
roskater 4 years ago
lol, hell no. cant be clinton. there's no monica attached =)) :P seriously now, dont think it is at least my memories say so. :|
96alexandra96 4 years ago
To know the real reasons the southern states seceded from the Union all you have to do is read their "Declarations of Causes of Seceding States". Here is an excerpt:
"The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party. While it attracts to itself by its creed the scattered advocates of exploded political heresies...., anti-slavery is its mission and its purpose."
jagosto1 4 years ago
"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." proposed 13th Amendment 3/2/61
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so....
mpolzkill 4 years ago
I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution..has passed Congress,to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States,including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said,I depart from my purpose,not to speak of particular amendments, so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable." Lincoln 3/4/61
mpolzkill 4 years ago
The confederates themselves asserted that one of the main reasons they seceded was because the North was threatening their institution of slavery. So who are you going to believe the actual secessionists in 1860, or modern day neo-confederate revisionists who state that the Civil War was not fought over slavery.
I tend to give more credence to the confederates who seceded and the reasons they gave for seceding.
jagosto1 4 years ago
Jackson, I hate to tell you but in the 1860's, all white americans were racists compared to today. We have came a long way to creating equality and one of the main reasons was men like Lincoln. A white leader willing to stick his neck out for an unpopular view. Without him and others we would only now be feeling the way that we felt in the 1950's. Grow up.
3LTNT 4 years ago
3LTNT: Yeah & Abe was even worse than the average then. He didn't stick his neck out for Black Americans one iota. He used them in any way he could think of. Your idea of "race relations" is so far off. You don't believe the war was fought over slavery in the south do you? That the war occurred was the main reason it took 100 years for Black Americans to get the still terribly flawed separate but equal laws now in place. The GOVERNMENT feeds off of "racialism". They NEVER cure it, but use it.
mpolzkill 4 years ago
One of the main reasons the South fought the war was to protect slavery but they were also pretty upset about a President being elected without one vote from the south.And Lincoln, whatever his reasoning for the emancipation may have been, he took massive critisism for it.That alone is more than most did.Even if it was to regain the edge in the war, as a white man in the 1860's it was a bold move & yeah we still have flawed laws, but where would we be if the emancipation hadn't been till later?
3LTNT 4 years ago
3L: The problem you guys are having is working backward from your worship of a mass-murderer for banks & corporations. You only look for evidence to prop up your hero. The U.S. was lagging behind the rest of the world in this matter. Lincoln cared less than NOTHING for Black Americans & GAINED prestige & leverage by pretending to. All the Feds ever had to do for them was uphold the Constitution EQUALLY. That has never been what they wished. They enslaved EVERYONE,they're doing it today in Iraq.
mpolzkill 4 years ago
You really are ignorant, if he didn't care why did he stand up for slaves when no one cared? Many politicians and including Lincoln knew that they were most likely lose if they supported anti-slavery. So unless Lincoln was taking a gamble, your wrong.
shiron236 3 years ago
shiron: When calling someone "really ignorant" it's crucial that you spell everything correctly.
"YOU'RE wrong"
You though, you're right, Lincoln was never anti-slavery. He was anti-slavery regarding the Western Territories for racialist reasons, being a racialist. And the Emancipation Proclamation was a political ploy that didn't free any slaves.
And I am ignorant of whatever propaganda was fed to you, thankfully.
mpolzkill 3 years ago
After u see a quack, go to a bookstore and get yourself some book to read on the subject.
Lincoln risked everything with the emancipation proclamation, especially in the bordering states that could also have seceded!
GShock112 3 years ago
No states ultimately seceded. What was the big risk? That to subjugate all Americans he'd have to hire even more thugs & conscript even more of the poor to murder even more people? I think he had it in him. I will agree that he was a daring, cunning & extremely successful mass-murderer, but I think he may have been more worried about Britain than Kentucky, so how is that risking "everything", orthodox simpleton?
mpolzkill 3 years ago
As I was eating breakfast, the full idiocy of your comment just struck me. He of course, wished to risk as little as possible in this case, which is why the Proclamation ONLY applied to slaves in areas he DIDN'T have control over. So obviously, he was pretty worried about Kentucky as well as Britain.
mpolzkill 3 years ago
Scholar, Lerone Bennett Jr. (who happens to be a Black American) on the typical response of the Lincoln Cult to a challenge, "find a slave or a former slave or, better, a Black officeholder to say that he adores Lincoln and doesn't care what people say"
mpolzkill 4 years ago
This was an excellent sincere visual presentation in mode, delivery and pace by Mr. Getty. Thank you for all your group does to keep Mr. Lincoln's words alive for us.
j3nburns 4 years ago
To: Jackson32 - Unlike many of his successors, Lincoln had the capacity to grow in the office. Was Fredrick Douglass wrong? He grew over time to respect Lincoln greatly with the upmost sincerity. He openly wept when the President was assassinated - because Douglass knew Lincoln's heart and he also knew the Black cause would be lost, which it was, as much lesser men took over reconstruction.
I ask you, is Fredrick Douglass not a better judge than any living man today?
j3nburns 4 years ago
Lose the music. It implies that the words are lacking power, and thus need propping up via the emotionally manipulative power of music.
Jitpring 4 years ago
tat iss not real!!
wtf
RedRaven4 4 years ago
more gravitas in your delivery please. less homey familiarity. nix the hokey fiddle music. This was a state address, a solemn occasion of grand proportions. The music and the country granpa actor don't fit the occasion.
edyersh 4 years ago
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,"
"There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
Abraham Lincoln
jackson32 4 years ago
The historical record shows that Lincoln was anti-slavery. This is one of the things Lincoln said on the subject,"I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."
jagosto1 4 years ago
jagosto1
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,"
"There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
Abraham Lincoln
It does not matter what else he said since there is no way in the world a non racist person would EVER say something like this.
jackson32 4 years ago
The issue at hand during the Civil War was slavery. The seceding states themselves acknowledge this when they stated, "The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party. While it attracts to itself by its creed the scattered advocates of exploded political heresies..., anti-slavery is its mission and its purpose."
jagosto1 4 years ago
Lincoln was a peaceful soul, he hated slavery, he thought it was a despicable evil, he believed wholeheartedly all men were created equally, all men have the right to eat the bread they toil over and yes he was a 19th century man, who did not believe blacks had the same capacity as white men. Would you in 19th century North or South?
j3nburns 4 years ago 2
the man who plays lincoln is friends with my stepdad
TheRoguePatriot77 4 years ago
Too bad that this speech was never recorded becuase the record wasn't invented yet, I mean this is a real classic.
Tommy12435 4 years ago
Fun fact: Lincoln had a high voice, like comedically high. However, this high voice allowed the speech to be carried over large distances. All dramatic protrayals of him thus far have given him big booming voices, far from the truth.
GluexXxEater 4 years ago 3
since u were alive then
MattJones1418 4 years ago
No because I bother reading things outside of the internet. Try it sometime. We know of Lincoln's voice the same way we know of people's reaction to his speech.
GluexXxEater 4 years ago
anyone could've written that... ooo he had a squealy voice... not documented anywhere on an mp3 recording
MattJones1418 4 years ago
You better be either retarded or joking.
GluexXxEater 4 years ago
nope!
MattJones1418 4 years ago
That's very true. My history teacher told us that exact same thing.
drawingpup 4 years ago
vedy nice!!
halie514 4 years ago
Oh if only someone could say in one hour what Lincoln said in just a couple of mins. He spoke of what America IS and what it SHOULD be!
inmyheart31 4 years ago 8
It would be nice if people spoke of the true America
trentin24 4 years ago
???
JulaGem 4 years ago
I have to memorize this...due tomorrow! D<
CFgirl 4 years ago
me too!
acousticky14 4 years ago
me too! its so fricken hard
DTate1922 4 years ago
I love that speech, but I think that he should have spoken it slower with more conviction and feeling. The crowd, too, could have been a little more emotional. A polite golf clap does not seem to be a correct response to such an emotionally charged speech. And about memorizing it: remember that it is one of the shortest speeches ever written. Try memorizing Harrison's inaugural address (three hours)for a challenge.
Zeno134 4 years ago
Well, Lincoln's delivery of the speech was about 15 seconds less than his according to most reviews of the speech.
Blooooo 4 years ago
Really? Thanks for telling me; I probably should do more research on that speech.
Zeno134 4 years ago
im choosing to memorize. i dont have too im just encouraged to.. and i will =)
Dynamics18 4 years ago
me too,, i must memorize this speech even im not living in america
sparrowsky 4 years ago
This is the closest to be acceptable, as the Speech of Lincoln. the other sound like if they are about to sleep and that speech was in no way like that!
Serglish 4 years ago
Wow. I had to memorize this for school, too. o: And I don't even live in America, LOLZ. xD
PeachPocky 4 years ago
me too..I have to memorize and deliver this for speech
girlypreppy16 4 years ago
I had to memorize this too for school! Its hard!lol
URKOOL13 4 years ago
Grrr I know!!
OmgItsChey 4 years ago
wheow! among all the school memorizations this is my most unforgettable one!
i had to orate this infront of our logic class! gggrrr
akishimei 4 years ago
It's pretty close to the way I've always imagined Linclon's voice. Good emphasis of the words. He needs to talk a little slower and be a little more dignified. Lincoln could do that when he had to.
pleonic 4 years ago
This is sweet. Even though i have to memorize for school :(
swathaloproductions 4 years ago
your schools retarded. why would they make you memorize this?
Hackiesacker007 4 years ago
its only one of the most known speeches in all america
borrisio 4 years ago
i have 2 memorize this and the preamble and a bunch of otha things. it sux!!!!!
guitarherofreak13 4 years ago
States rights.Did America not gain independence from Britain on the point of states rights.You denied the south the right of self determination,without such a right there is no democracy.
celtic6rangers2 4 years ago
Read the Declaration of Independence to find out what we fought Britain for. It wasn't "state rights." And we're not a democracy; we're a republic. Don't they teach that in school anymore?
pleonic 4 years ago
Please explain to a foreigner whats so special about this speech. Its just full of platitudes and small talk. So democracy is FOR the people - please, who DIDN'T say that?
Pippin76 4 years ago
In 269 words he invoked the principles of human equality descibed in the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant, defined democracy in terms of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and defined republicanism in terms of freedom, equality and democracy.
HerBunk 4 years ago
This voice I think is close to the mark, unlike those movies that made him sound like FDR.
Good job.
Deneb33 4 years ago
Jim Getty, what a guy. Met him a few years back at a Remembrance Day dedication for the GAR memorial. Nice, nice fellow. I'd love to believe ol' Abe was just like him.
As for the voice, my understanding is that only Hal Holbrook came closer to what Lincoln'c contemporaries descrived.
detectivethorne 5 years ago
Although we are told Lincoln's voice was high and nasal, I just cannot imagine such a folksy delivery at such a solemn event.
pupplesan 5 years ago
I can memorize it! BEAT THAT. Its 4 skool...we are studying the american civil war...LOL
roxyteenroyalty 5 years ago
you too?? god i hate having to memorize crap for school.
bluejackets47 4 years ago
its a joke. laugh a little. way to go on this movie, real Speilberg quality
sebbydinatale 5 years ago
Very nice.
Pathfinder767 5 years ago