The Gettysburg Address "Fourscore 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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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."
From the Chicago Times
"Readers will not have failed to observe the exceeding bad taste which characterized the remarks
of the President ... The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat,
and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the
President of the United States."
Write an essay of at least two to three paragraphs analyzing this newspaper remark from the
Chicago Times. Use specific quotations from the Gettysburg Address to support or refute the
newspaper's claim (100 points)