Separatins Of Our Country

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Separations of our Country

These articles, to me, discuss the problems of slavery and war in the early 1860”s. Slavery and war were major issues in these days that caused many problems. After reading both the Gettysburg Address and the Letter to His Son that dealt with the feelings on our world years ago fro, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, I feel that their point of views are both similar and yet much different, in dealing with these two topics.
Abraham Lincoln, our American President at the time wrote The Gettysburg Address. The address helped people to realize what was happening to our country. Lincoln’s speech was very powerful, honorable, and sympathetic at the same time. Lincoln says, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus for so nobly advanced” (Adventures in Literature pg. 367). He spoke so simply but was still able to set his feelings on freedom across.
Robert E. Lee on the other hand, wrote a Letter to His Son, which discussed his views on how he felt with this separation within are nation. Lee is concerned with freedom in the country as a whole but more in his home state of Virginia. For example at the end of his letter, he says “if the union is dissolved, and the government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and shine the miseries of my people, and save in defense, will draw my sword on none” (Adventures in Literature pg. 370). In my opinion, Lee’s letter was not as much concerned with the country as a whole.
In conclusion The Gettysburg Address and the Letter to His Son are very much alike. In each article, both Lincoln and Lee are against this separation between union and confederation. They both are very concerned with the issue and are fighting for a change. I think that they both wrote what they did to express their feelings and to try and get the people of the country to come together and cha...