Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: Architect of the Nation It was fifteen months later, at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, that Lincoln showed that he had adopted new views. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, he announced. It was a far cry from what he had said only two score and seven months before at his inauguration. There he had talked of the American Revolution, of the Constitution, of the Union that had been formed, and matured, and made more perfect. Now, ...
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: Architect of the Nation It was fifteen months later, at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, that Lincoln showed that he had adopted new views. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, he announced. It was a far cry from what he had said only two score and seven months before at his inauguration. There he had talked of the American Revolution, of the Constitution, of the Union that had been formed, and matured, and made more perfect. Now, at Gettysburg, he was convinced that a new nation had been brought forth, and he was highly resolved that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. Still later, in his second inaugural, Lincoln gave unconsciousevidence that the Nation had supplanted the Union in his thinking. Four times he referred to the Union in this address-and each time it was in reference to the situation in Four times he referred to the Nation-and each time it was in reference to the present or to the future. Now it was the energies of the Nation which were engrossed in the war, and it was a Nation which was to survive. It was national wounds which were to be healed. And it was here that Lincoln com mitted this new nation to do all that may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Fundamentally, Lincoln's great achievement was the creation of a new nation to take the place of the old federal union. When the smoke from the battlefields had cleared away, and regimental battle flags were stored away in museum cases, it began to dawn upon men that a great constitutional change had taken place. A revolution had occurred in the minds of men, and Abraham Lincoln, martyred for the case, stood as a symbol of the new nation. It was, in fact, Lincoln himself and not the Continental Congress or the Founding Fathers who brought forth and dedicated the new nation. In the process he scotched forever the doctrine of secession, defeated the Southern armies, and ended slavery in its greatest stronghold. But the victory over the South was not the only item in the creation of the nation. Equally as vital as the victory over the Confederate forces was the victory which Abraham Lincoln won over the doctrine of States Rights in the North. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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