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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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 battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow, this ground -- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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.*
Posted By: RailSplitter 10:05AM
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|RailSplitter said: "all men are
created equal"
Some sort of religious nut, obviously. Darwin clearly stated that men were evolved, not created. Read the Origin of the Specious, you fool. It clearly states how man evolved—everyone knows that, even those like me who have never actually read it.
Posted By: KnowItAll
10:15AM
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Dude, that’s so lame! ‘Four score’ what kind of pretentious luddite says that?
Posted By: ImAGeniousSezMe
10:16AM
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Come on, everyone knows that this war was provoked by the mean-spirited Harriet Beecher Stowe and other religious radicals like Garrison. If they don’t like slavery, let them buy them and set them free. Why do we have to fight and die for their one-sided views? Wasn’t their hate inspired violence at Harper’s Ferry enough? Don’t they know that this is the age of enlightment and reason? Save the Bible for Sunday. Slavery is a question of agriculture and economics. And you know, Lincoln ‘won’ with less than 50% of the vote.
Hey-Hey-Ho-Ho
We won’t fight for abolition bigotry no Mo’
Slaves were needlessly freed,
Because of Harriet’s hateful screed
Posted By:
ReallyNeedsToActuallyMoveOn 10:17AM
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We can not interfere in the internal affairs of the South. Surely international sanctions would work. You know, in Massachusetts once there were witch trials, so we really can’t judge the South. This has got to have its roots in poverty. Obviously, if the South was not poor they could afford to pay workers instead of using slaves. Our Northern factories and tariffs are clearly exploiting the poor South. Really, we caused this war. Instead of sending more soldiers to their deaths, let us admit that it was a mistake and let us help the South instead.
Posted By: AlwaysOurFault
10:32AM
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|RailSplitter said: “Four score and
seven years ago our fathers brought forth”
Fathers? How about mothers too? Don’t they count? How about Betsy Ross? How would there be a flag to defend if Ms. Ross had not selflessly sewn it?
Posted By:
MeNotMoveOnEither 10:40AM
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|RailSplitter said: “that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that |the nation, 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.”
Oh come on! You know that this whole war is a plot by Free Masons to weaken the South while simultaneously ridding the North of excess population while increasing tariffs on European goods. Is it merely a coincidence that George Washington was a Free Mason? This war was planned a long time ago. Ever hear of the ‘gun powder plot’? And, chillingly, who makes gun powder here: the DuPonts. Proves my point: a big money blue-blood conspiracy. If I don’t post here anymore you’ll know that they’ve taken me away. Wake up everyone!
Posted By: SpotLightOnBirch 11:05AM
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|ImAGeniousSezMe said: Dude, that’s so
lame! ‘Four score’ what kind of
pretentious |luddite says that?
Hey, good one man. Your more eloquent than that rail splitter dude.
Posted By: MeTooAOLer
11:07AM
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Note how railsplitter never says how many men were supposed to have died there. Does this document not have an alarming lack of detail of the local situation? I mean, lots of detail about the founding of this so called free country, but no mention of the local weather, scenery, the number of casualties, etc. That makes one wonder if he was really there at all? Makes me think that it was all just made up. Raises the question as to what his (if he really exists) real motivation was.
Posted By: SecretMeanings
12:00PM
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|SecretMeanings Said: Makes me think that it
was all just made up. Raises the question |as
to what his (if he really exists) real motivation was.
Yes-Exactly! Rail Splitter is obviously the name of a secret society, not simply one person. Think about it: Rail means behind a rail: away from prying ears. Splitter means that the group, or society, is split into different parts. Obviously this is a secret society. Maybe the Free Masons that SpotLightOnBirch wrote about?
Or maybe the “our fathers” part didn’t mean the founding fathers, it meant their fathers. So it must be a hereditary society of some sort. Maybe the Knights Templar?
Posted By: BlitheringIdiot
12:02PM
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|BlitheringIdot said: The “our
fathers” part didn’t mean the founding fathers, it meant |their fathers.
So it must be a hereditary society of some sort. Maybe the Knights |Templar?
Good work! It is all coming together now. It is so clear. This post was meant to scare people away from digging there. You know, making the ground hallowed an all and claiming that corpses are buried. And that part about the world not remembering what they said there: they can only hope! Bet that there was not even a battle there at all. Think about it: a hereditary secret society who was not even there (these points firmly established in prior posts) buries something ‘consecrated’ in the ground. As it was clearly the Knights Templar it must be the ‘Holy Grail.’ Think about it: four score and seven-subtract forty from seven and you get thirty-three—the supposed age of Christ when he died. Obviously, that proves it! The ‘score’ part was to settle the score, so to speak. And brought forth on this continent what, a new oppressive form of government which now must be established in this time of manufactured crisis? So what is the ‘Holy Grail’, really? This must point to an attempt to establish a papist theocracy in America by weakening the country in a prolonged internal war. The ‘Holy Grail’ must be something that would reveal the papists to be fakes. We must dig up the so-called ‘grave yard’ at Gettysburg, or at least write a fictional book of what is there. We must break the Gettysburg Code!
Posted By: DumBrown 12:30PM
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What does a ‘score’ mean?
Posted By Newbie 1:45PM
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*For the history buffs, there are three or so written versions of the Gettysburg Address; this is one of the less often cited versions.