![]() ![]() 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. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. 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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Nicolay reprints President Lincoln's impromptu remarks:įour 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. Lincoln showed himself only long enough to utter the few commonplace excuses which politeness required." The crowd persisted in calling him out, but Mr. With material so abundant, and enthusiasm so plentiful, a serenading party soon organized itself to call on prominent personages for impromptu speeches, and of course the President could not escape. ![]() "After the usual supper hour the streets literally swarmed with visitors, and the stirring music of regimental bands and patriotic glee-clubs sounded in many directions. "Except during its days of battle the little town of Gettysburg had never been so full of people," he wrote. Nicolay set the scene in Gettysburg the night before the now-famous speech. One of my favorite retrospectives was published back in 1894 in The Century Magazine, where John G. It has been celebrated by successive generations of Americans ever since. The volstead act did allow for 200 gallons/home of homemade wine.One-hundred and fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. This was proved true, hend the enactment of the volstead act 9 months later. To avoid conflict, and in the firm belief that a prohibition amendment could never be ratified by 36 states, most congressmen simply went along.Ĥ) most also correctly believed that (even if the amendment was ratified) the law amendment could never be enforced. As a congressman, if you did not vote the way they wanted you to vote, their support would go elsewhere. This killed the beer companies and made them even more ineffective.ģ) The TCU, or the Christian Temperance Union wielded a lot of political might. It being 1919, a HEAVY post WWI anti German sentiment existed that nullified the political efforts of the wets.Ģ) the wets managed to pass laws the governed the conservation of grain, a hold over of war time efforts. the political opposition was headed by the major beer companies that were ran by German Americans. a number of factors existed at the time.ġ) the country was split into two groups, the wets and the dries. one asks just how an all male government (with one exception) would actually vote for this. In fact, the governor of NJ was quoted the "New Jersey will be as wet as the atlantic ocean) ![]() Understandably, the reaction by many states was to not provide any law enforcement resources or any provide any attempt to uphold the act. it was not until the volstead act was passed (9 months after the amendment was ratified) that a definition was made intoxicating was anything under 1/2% abv. Many felt that beer and wine would be allowed and that hard liquor would not. ![]() So the amendment mentions "intoxicating" beverages, but no definition was made of what exactly was an intoxicating beverage. ![]()
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