![]() ![]() ![]() President Lincoln was under enormous pressure and stress when he was delivering the Gettysburg Address. Seeking only to honor the dead and inspire the living, Lincoln ended up delivering one of the most powerful speeches in American-if not world-history. ![]() The first was to consecrate the land and give remembrance to the brave soldiers who fought and died at Gettysburg, and the second was to sway those attending into giving their “…last full measure of devotion-” to ensure a nation that would remain built upon the concepts of liberty and democracy. Being a masterful speaker, Lincoln utilized various rhetorical devices to make the Gettysburg Address accomplish two tasks in one. In an uncharacteristically short speech-at least for the 1860s-Lincoln was able to reaffirm the values our Founding Fathers had laid down in the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution, and painted a vision of a unified United States where freedom and democracy would be the rule for all citizens. Seven score and nine years ago, Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth President of the United States of America, set off for Gettysburg in order to consecrate Gettysburg National Cemetery. ![]()
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