Discours de Gettysburgh: commémoration pour les 150 ans.

Le discours le plus important de l'histoire américaine? Un des plus surprenants à tout le moins. Cinq mois après la bataille, la foule s'attend à un long discours alors que Lincoln y va pour quelques phrases et quelques minutes... Je vous laisse un extrait d'un article du Washington Post et ma chronique de cet été sur le sujet dans le cadre de l'émission de Radio-canada Dessine-moi un dimanche.

 "The short oration, which begins, “Four score and seven years ago,” was intended to mark the dedication of the cemetery at the site of the pivotal battle. But it also came as Lincoln’s own reasons for fighting the Civil War were evolving. He spoke of how democracy itself rested upon “the proposition that all men are created equal,” a profound and politically risky statement for the time. Slavery and the doctrine of states’ rights would not hold in the “more perfect union” of Lincoln’s vision.

 It was not immediately recognized as a towering literary achievement. Just last week, The Patriot-News in nearby Harrisburg retracted a dismissive editorial about the speech published by its Civil War-era predecessor, The Harrisburg Patriot & Union. The newspaper now says it regrets the error of not seeing its “momentous importance, timeless eloquence and lasting significance.”

 The ideals expressed in the speech also weren’t necessarily a reflection of reality. Only a few years after the war, a separate cemetery for black Civil War veterans was created in Gettysburg because they were “denied burial in the National Cemetery because of segregation policies,” according to a historical marker placed in 2003.

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gettysburg-address-event-to-mark-150th-anniversary-of-president-lincolns-historic-speech/2013/11/19/4e5ae52a-50e9-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html

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