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t walgamuth · #1 12-24-2012, 09:44 PM

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Note on the Gettysburg Address

by H.L. Mencken

The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.

Its always reassuring to be reminded that in many minds the civil war is not over.

HuskyMan · #2 12-24-2012, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Its always reassuring to be reminded that in many minds the civil war is not over.

I never thought of it as a 'Cvil War', I mean, what's civil about killing each other? War is UNcivil. When communications and negotiations break down and the fabric of government shreds, war is the result.

As a result of the Uncivil war, the so-called balance of power between the three branches (judicial, legislative and executive)was forever turned on it's head. Virginia was made military district number one and military law was enforced at the point of a bayonet. The southern states were FORCED to rewrite their respective state constitutions. Texas tried several times to rewrite their constitution before finally giving up sometime in the mid 1970s'.

As a result of Lincoln's war of aggression against Southern Independence, there remains many legal issues and problems that remain unresolved.