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Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address for the people of the American colonies understand that the civil war is destroying the simple ideals that their nation had been built upon. One of his two main purposes for writing and delivering this speech was to reinforce the fact that those men who gave their lives did not die in vain, "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," (Lines 18 - 21). The other main purpose for writing and delivering this speech was to remind the people that this war is betraying the ideals of the nation--he is saying that this war needs to come to a close, making America free once again. This is shown twice, one being in lines 1 - 6, "...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...can long endure." The other is stated in lines 21 - 23, "...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."
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