Read Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and "Second Inaugural Address" and write/post a journal: Choose an important quote from the reading and paraphrase it. (Try to not choose a quote that has already been chosen.)

-- Anonymous, February 04, 2005

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AHA! FIRST TO POST! It feels good to be first for once… anyways, let’s get down to the task at hand.

From “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address” 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 the nation might live.

Paraphrased version Now we are in a war against ourselves, testing if our nation, or any other, could long survive this kind of conflict. We gather here on one of the bloodiest battlefields of this war, to honor the men who have died for the cause most just to them.

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2005

Lincoln's Quote (2nd Inaugural): "...and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another, drawn with the sword..."

Paraphrased: (speaking of the Civil War) [the war will not end] until every wrong brought about by slavery is repaid by a wrong caused by the Civil War

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Ha! Bronze metal for Benjy! Gettysburg Address: " . . . 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."

No honors the human beings of this land can ever bestow can equal the sacrifices made by your children and fathers. Nothing we can give those whose lives are destroyed or gone can balance what they have given us in return. The most we can give these men is this hallowed ground and the memory of what they did here.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Quote(Second Inaugural Address): Each look for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.

Interpretation: Each side was trying to minimize their loses in the war. If the war ended in a loss, then they did not want to be wiped out completely and lose everything.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

ah, well. Fifth is better that nothing.

(Lincoln's second inaagural adress) ahem.. "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to blah, blah, blah.." thats a long sentence.

Jareds (shorter)version- "The point of this war is to re-unite our country. We're fighting our brothers! lets not get to used to the idea of hating the south. We're trying to bring them back to the union, not slaughter them all."

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

from Gettysburg-> "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the propisition that all men are created equal"

87 years ago, the founders of this country (America), made this country based on freedom and rights, and also that all people are equal.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

(From Gettysburg Address) The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Paraphrase: What we talked about here may not be recognized now let alone remembered later, but what we did will be remembered for all time.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

(from Gettysburg Adress) "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..."

Paraphrased: Even though these men may be dead, we must champion their cause and continue their fight. Simply because the men are dead does not mean that their cause is also, we have a great task that lay ahead and we must fully dedicate ourselves to it.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

From the Second Inaugural Address: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

I believe that what Lincoln was getting across was that both the north and the south disaproved of war, but the south would rather have a war than abolish slavery. Because of this, the north was forced to fight rather than allow America to decline.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

"These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this intersts was, somehow, the cause of the war." - Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Paraphrased Version: The slaves created an interest (mainly as a huge work force and cheap labor) that sparked a discrepency (aha! spelling word) between the North and the South, causing the war.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "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 the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."

This basically says that the war that is taking place is killing the people that are fighting for their country. This shows dedication for one's country, because they died so that the country that they lived in could remain. The battlefield in which a group of dedicated people died on was dedicated to them and their courage. This was believed to be the right thing to do.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Gettysburg Address: We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting- place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live.

Ben's Paraphrase: This part of the field of the battlefield is set aside for honor of those who died for the well-being of the country.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

(Second Inaugural Address) Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Each read the same Bible, and pray to the same god; each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.

(Lamence terms) Both sides wanted the same thing, and asked the same person who is supposed to be just and fair to help them do something wrong. But we shouldn't be mean, otherwise karma will come back around and it will be bad for us.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Gettyburg address: ...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last measuer of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...

Partyboy's paraphrase: The dead soldiers should be remebered because they died supporting something they believed in-The dead should not have died just to die but for a reason.

I am Partyboy and i approved this answer.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

And I think Benjy Swartz might be wanting a bronze medal instead of bronze metal. Unless of course if he wants to melt the metal down and make something else and with the interesting people at our school a hobby of welding would not surprise me in the least.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Ben Swartz already had this quote in part of his quote but i found it the most interesting and realistic of the Gettysburg Address... "..we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it....The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." This is a great quote explaining that the real heros and the ones who deserve to dedicate the cemetary are the brave men that fell in the proccess of war, which was a bold and truthful statement.

-Zach

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Gettysburg Address: "... 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."

Big B's Interpretation: He is saying in this passage that the people of the United States need to realize that they are now totally free and in control of the nation and government, so they need to work to make the nation better. He also says that this type of government is so long lasting that it 'shall not perish.'

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

From Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address:

“To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest [slavery] was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.”

In other (far less eloquent) words:

To further expand the institution of slavery, the Confederate states have gone so far as to divide America through war, even though the U.S. Government sought only to prevent the spread of slavery into new territories and allow it where it had already been established. Neither North nor South thought that the war would last this long or cost so many lives and resources. Neither predicted that the issue of slavery, the cause of the war, would be resolved as or even before the war ended.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)- "...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."

My turn- The United States of America will reform their government to support all people's views and keep what is important on the earth.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Well Chris great minds think alike. From his Second Inaugural Address: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came"

Lincoln was trying to explain why the war had to happen. Since this election was right in the middle of the war, the war was the biggest political issue. Lincoln was trying to show the nation that he couldn’t have avoided war even though he didn’t want it. This pacified the populace and allowed the war to continue

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2005

Well, excuse me, Anne. It's a hard enough life.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2005

Gettysburg Address: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought fourth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Paraphrased: Eighty-seven years ago our ancesters established a new nation on this continent, that's sole purpose was about rights of the people, no matter who they were because all men are the same.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2005