158 YEARS AGO

158 years ago this week marks the Gettysburg Address given by President Lincoln.
the battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the civil war. with the Unions victory it dashed the hopes of the Confederate States of becoming an independent Nation.
At a Memorial service the keynote Speaker Edward Everett spoke for over 2 hours yet no one knows who he was or what he said.
by contrast the last speaker President Lincoln spoke for under 5 minutes and delivered one of the most memorable speeches in the history of The United States of America.
a good lesson learned that day, it's not how long you speak but what you say that people will remember

GOD BLESS THE USA

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Eternity · 26-30, M

Honestly we should have let the south go, quarantined them on their western border to prevent expansion, and just gave government assistance to the underground railroad and amnesty to any slave that escaped; slavery would have phased out eventually using those methods.

The USA would have been better off for it. The south would become what Mexico is to us; a place where we get cheap goods and menial labor from.

DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

@Eternity Slavery was on its way out. If they had not fought the war, it would have been outlawed in 5-10 years. Slavery was like a lot of things today. Only about 3-5 percent of Southerners owned slaves and most of them only owned 1 or 2. Something like 10 percent of the slave owners owned 90 percent of the slaves.

turbineman40 · 80-89, M

@Eternity Interesting Lincoln freed the salves. Lincoln was a republican