Gettysburg

 

Trump's Gettysburg address: President is expected to join Rudy Giuliani in the historic Pennsylvania town for a 'hearing' at a hotel on allegations the Democrats stole the 2020 election

• The president is said to have insisted on making the trip for the event at a hotel
• It will be the first time he has left the Washington DC area since Election Day
• Trump has continued to insist he is not giving up his fight to overturn the results
• The Gettysburg battlefield is the site of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Civil War; it is also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address
• The event is set up to expose 'irregularities' in the election, team Trump say 
• They say two more events are planned - in Arizona and Michigan

By Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:57 EST, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 02:46 EST, 25 November 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8984895/Trumps-Gettysburg-address-President-expected-join-Giuliani-hearing-Pennsylvania-town.html

 

 Four score 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 can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not 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 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.

—Abraham Lincoln

 

Causes of secession

Main articles: Origins of the American Civil War and Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War

The causes of secession were complex and have been controversial since the war began, but most academic scholars identify slavery as a central cause of the war. James C. Bradford wrote that the issue has been further complicated by historical revisionists, who have tried to offer a variety of reasons for the war.^[24] Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s. The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery to newly formed states, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election. After Lincoln won, many Southern leaders felt that disunion was their only option, fearing that the loss of representation would hamper their ability to promote pro-slavery acts and policies.^[25][26]

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