tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123819765212119733.post519809108968698599..comments2009-11-19T20:37:40.531-05:00homeschoolceohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02971375549834680356melissabrich@gmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123819765212119733.post-90810657086089438592009-11-19T20:34:55.168-05:002009-11-19T20:34:55.168-05:00I didn&#39;t realize that was today! Thank you for sharing that!blueviolethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960276167677132860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2123819765212119733.post-33162808799451654682009-11-19T13:48:59.067-05:002009-11-19T13:48:59.067-05:00I memorized the Gettysburg Address when I was a kid growing up in the public schools of Tennessee and assumed the things it said were true. That&#39;s when I was a child.<br /><br />Looking back, from the perspective of having studied American history for more than sixty years, I realize how false Lincoln&#39;s speech really was. Dishonest Abe Lincoln was a master of political spin, whose words were the polar opposite of his deeds. Government of the people, by the people and for the people was exactly the thing he was trying to crush in his unconstitutional and brutal attack on the Confederate nation. <br /><br />Lincoln&#39;s words are a mockery when one considers that he held 13,000 northern political prisoners, without trial or due process of law - just because they disagreed with his illegal war. <br /><br />Famous American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), said of the Gettysburg Address: “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.”J. Stephen Connhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00944756120065605666noreply@blogger.com