gettysburg address

What @Leighalyhn sends me when we are trying to remember the gettysburg address.

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Biton

** SPEEDY SAY, DID YOU KNOW THAT A LITTLE HISTORY NEVER HURTS:

1861–1865 Civil War: Conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) over the expansion of slavery into western states. Confederates attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the war (April 12, 1861). Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee secede (April–June). Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing slaves in the Confederate states (Jan. 1, 1863). Battle of Gettysburg is fought (July 1–3). President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19). Gen. William T. Sherman captures Atlanta (Sept. 2, 1864). Lincoln's second inauguration (March 4, 1865). Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captures Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy (April 3). Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va., (April 9).

1863 Homestead Act becomes law, allowing settlers to claim land (160 acres) after they have lived on it for five years (Jan. 1).

1865 Lincoln is assassinated (April 14) by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC, and is succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson. Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery (Dec. 6).

1867 U.S. acquires Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million (treaty concluded March 30).

1868 President Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives (Feb. 24), but he is acquitted at his trial in the Senate (May 26). Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, defining citizenship (July 9).

Williams

Is it strange that my dad can recite the Gettysburg address? #asktwitter

Kondō

I fuckin hated that nigga that knew the Gettysburg address by heart in 4th grade...

Turner

O God, you who are the Alpha and Omega, we give thanks for kids who burp the alphabet. Amen.

Avraham

Several have commented that Christ did not speak on marriage, but He clearly laid it out as a union of Man and Woman, Male and Female.

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:4-6.

Sánchez

Just a reminder to my friends. There is no way you will ever contact me by a private message on my personal page and I am sorry. I have around 500 unanswered messages in there from the last 3 days. There is no way I can do that. If you absolutely need to talk to me the best ways are email or text. Then I'm still slow but I get to most of them. I'm sorry, I had no idea things would explode like this. I get about 100 notifications from facebook every 10-15 minutes. Even tagging me in a post or posting on my wall usually doesn't work. There are just too many messages to humanly keep up with. This does not mean that I don't love you all. Things will settle down at some point and I can be more sociable then. Right now I need to maintain focus because it appears we are doing some good for lots of people and that matters. Have a great day!

Agrawal

A modern Gettysburg Address http://t.co/REgOU2f0za via @stephenwoodfin

Russell

#pointless Xander knew roosevelt and jefferson but not the Gettysburg Address!

Davis

There are 66 words in the Lord's Prayer. There are 286 words in the Gettysburg Address. There are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. There are 26,911 words in the U.S. government regulations on the sale of cabbage.

Foster

GOSHHH...... its soo hard finding these two dresses that i need/want for graduation and L.M and remebering the Gettysburg Address

Mandadapu

Good old Gettysburg,a good place to spend a day off.

Katz

Sick Beard: Download Finished: Homeland - 2x06 - A Gettysburg Address

Wong

A Russell Knight Elementary School alumni..April 26th 6:30 to 8:30 there will be a 50th Anniversary celebration. All who would like to attend please respond to this email address ark50th@gmail.com Please pass this on to fellow Knights! I have found 2 addresses to 2 of my favorite former teachers Mr. Callaghan and Mr. Harvey. If you know of any teachers who might still be around be forward this message. I am hoping many of us "originals" will attend. Please forgive me if I have sent this to some Barclay kids that attended Johnson. Again, please pass this message on !!

Yamaguchi

Everybody poops. The pope poops. Obama poops. EVERYONE. Nobody is above the indignity of pooping.

Adams

@195Phillip Gettysburg address, all the way.

Martínez

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 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 that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Ephesians 6:12: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. - NKJV Bible

Lín

Another day in NY, then we head to Philadelphia and Gettysburg:

SUNDAY, MARCH 31
∗ Walk to breakfast (stipend provided).
∗ Depart for Battery Park.
∗ Take the boat cruise to view the Statue of Liberty.
∗ Walk to “Wall Street”, World Trade Center and St. Paul’s Church.
∗ Visit the September 11th Memorial
∗ Coach takes group to shop and eat in Chinatown (lunch stipend).
∗ Return to the hotel to change for the evening out in New York City.
∗ See a Broadway Production of “Stomp.”
∗ Dinner at La Mela Italian Restaurant in Little Italy.
∗ Group photo in Times Square.
∗ Return to the hotel, security checks in.

MONDAY, APRIL 1
∗ Early departure and breakfast on the road. (stipend provided)
∗ Depart for Philadelphia, PA.
∗ View the Liberty Bell.
∗ Guided Tour of Independence Hall.
∗ Tour the National Constitution Center. See the film, “We the People.”
∗ Lunch at the National Constitution Center. (stipend provided)
∗ Self guided tour of the Betsy Ross House.
∗ Depart for Gettysburg. (Walk to the cemetery where President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.) (Students recite the Gettysburg Address)
∗ Dinner in Gettysburg at General Pickett’s Buffet.
∗ Check into the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel, security checks in.

Robinson

Ughhhh I Gotta Memorize This Damn Gettysburg Address >_>

Brown

Pretend California Proposition 8 is not about same-sex marriage. Please try, just for a moment, to set that piece of it aside. If you can’t do that, please stop reading now because the rest of this will probably upset you.

Proposition 8 passed with 52.24% of the vote. The people were asked their opinion and they gave it and a majority of the people passed it. It does not matter what Proposition 8 is about – the fact is that over half the population voted for it. Do we really want the Supreme Court to tell us that elections do not matter? If the majority opinion does not matter, why have elections at all?

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which he gave dedicating a cemetery for fallen soldiers, ends with “…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

If Proposition 8 is overturned by the Supreme Court, do we still have a government of the people, by the people, for the people? What do our troops fight for if not for We the People to govern ourselves through the democratic process? And, if the opinion of the 52.24% of the people of California that voted for Proposition 8 does not matter, then why should yours?

As I said, I am not addressing the same-sex issue – I am addressing how we govern ourselves. We need to return to the art of peaceful persuasion – whatever side we are on. If we do not, we will end up divided against each other, hating one another. How many times has history shown us that minority rule often ends with bloodshed?

I encourage you to stand up for what you believe in. I encourage you to work to persuade others so that your opinion is the majority opinion. But, until your opinion is the majority opinion, accept the rules of democracy. Because the alternative to democracy is tyranny and tyranny always leads to suffering.