"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 battle-field 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 here 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."
Indeed, these are very moving words. And especially, if the Union he so preserved was indeed dedicated to the revolutionary ideas of 1776.
However, 1871 saw a change. The Constitution of became the capitalized version the CONSTITUTION FOR, and in 1873 saw the unconstitutional coinage act of 1873.
Again, debts played a role and in 1913 the FED was set up on Christmas Eve.
What do you want for Christmas? The FED?
Rep. Patman of Dallas Texas remarked that this institution would promote all kinds of institutions to rise up and leave posterity homeless on the soil the ancestors conquered....
And it is coming to pass. Debt slavery runs high. And Biden cannot do anything else than to increase the debt.
Maybe it has to happen this way, a sped up blow-up of this debt-slave-system, so once more we can usher in a time devoted to the ideal of liberty.
However, this Lincoln-legacy, in deed is reprehensible, though in his words intention may have been correct.