He droned on for 2 hours comparing the Civil War soldiers to Greek gods. Impact of the Gettysburg Addressīefore Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address, Edward Everett gave a long speech. He said that they were gathered to formally dedicate ground hallowed by the men, American citizens, who died there, but his speech turned the event into a rededication of the living to the war effort to preserve a nation of freedom. The nation founded on equality was in the midst of a war to determine whether such a nation could continue to exist. Lincoln’s speech puts the Civil War in perspective as a test of the success of the American Revolution. It is rather for us, the living, we here be 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 these dead shall not have died in vain that the nation, 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. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here while it can never forget what they did here. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. We are met on a great battlefield 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. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.”
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