Gettysburg Address Thesis

“Four score and seven years ago….” These words formed the beginning of Abraham Lincoln’s well-known speech, the Gettysburg Address, given at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863. Although, the Gettysburg Address is much greater than those few words. The Gettysburg Address expressed Abraham Lincoln’s ideas on the preservation of the United States, similar to the ideas in Daniel Wester’s speeches and in those by the Founding Fathers. The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln that expressed his ideas on the Civil War and the preservation of the union. It begins by stating that eighty-seven years ago, the Founding Fathers of the United States established the nation based on the propositions of liberty and equality rather

In one of Webster’s speeches, given on January 26, 1830 and in response a senator from South Carolina standing in for John C. Calhoun during a Senate debate, Webster emphasized the importance of the union and expressed ideas of the darkness that disunion would be. Then Webster continued, stating that the union would offer great prospects and finally that liberty and union are inseparable. In a later speech, given in 1833 and in response a force bill that would allow the president to use military force to collect custom duties from South Carolina if it refused to recognize the court’s judgement, Webster used an “America is an example” concept, similar to Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, in which Webster said that is its unimaginable for one state to secede and break up the country. Furthermore, Webster went on to say that nullification attacks the vital principle of the union and would lead to disunion and revolution. In addition, once again in a speech given by Webster, in response to Calhoun’s opinion to the Compromise of 1850, Webster emphasized the preservation of the union and that there would be no

In George Washington’s farewell address, Washington spoke of the importance of developing a national patriotism and the union’s value. He then went on to say that continuing the union needs to be a primary goal. Also, Thomas Jefferson, in an address delivered in March 1801, Jefferson called for people to support the union’s federal government and called the American union the “world’s best hope,” viewing the United States as a model to the rest of the world. Furthermore, Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, also perceived America to provide an example of free government, evoking the “city upon a hill” theme in his writing, and that the United States must succeed in proving that a nation founded on liberty can