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the negro is not equal to the white man. slavery is his natural and normal condition. when a cemetery is dedicated at gettysburg to bury the thousands of americans who died there, abraham lincoln takes the opportunity to definitively link the union s fight to america s founding principles. mr. president. [ applause ] four 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. contrary to the confederacy s radical insistence on racial superiority, lincoln says that our nation is built on the realization that all men are created equal.
of the entire federal army. with the union now fighting for emancipation and stonewall jackson dead, robert e. lee invades pennsylvania and reveals exactly what the confederacy is fighting for. pennsylvania, at that time, had over 20,000 free blacks. pennsylvania embodied the success of a free black community, and to see this invading army of the south, an invading army that was fighting for a single cause, the cause of maintaining their slave institution, would evoke fear. lee s army went north with the mission of tracking down african-americans and taking them south back into virginia to determine whether the people they captured were, in fact, escaped slaves, reminding everybody of what the confederacy had come to be. lee s northern invasion
but six weeks after the election, south carolina is the first to secede, and six more states soon follow. [ cheers and applause ] the confederate states of america comes into existence with jefferson davis as its president. an army officer, veteran of the mexican war. the time for compromise has now passed. it s very hard for a southern politician to resist the force of secession, especially if jefferson davis was. this is a guy who thought he was gonna be president of the united states. the south is determined to maintain her position and make all who oppose her smell southern powder and feel southern steel. [ crowd cheering ]
but six weeks after the election, south carolina is the first to secede, and six more states soon follow. [ cheers and applause ] the confederate states of america comes into existence with jefferson davis as its president. an army officer, veteran of the mexican war. the time for compromise has now passed. it s very hard for a southern politician to resist the force of secession, especially if jefferson davis was. this is a guy who thought he was gonna be president of the united states. the south is determined to maintain her position and make all who oppose her smell southern powder and feel southern steel. [ crowd cheering ]