The President Lincoln Shall Have A New Birth Of Freedom

Imagine living in a country where only half the people have a voice in the government, while the other half is ignored. It doesn’t seem fair, right? Earlier this week, President Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address stating 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.” Now, many of you may be sitting here wondering what he meant when he said that the nation, ‘shall have a new birth of freedom’. Well, he means that he wants to adopt the idea that all slaves will become free. By adopting this idea, it would mean that our right to property would be denied. Even though Lincoln believes that he will be helping the Union by …show more content…
When Lincoln first gave his oath to this country, he claimed that, “the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States” meaning that he will punish everyone who breaks the law. Even so said that, we know that Lincoln has not kept his oath by looking at our own plantations. Every day, I go outside to find that one of my slaves or someone in the community is missing a slave. These slaves have been leaving our plantations by receiving help from northerners who helped them escape to freedom. As described in the South Carolina Declaration of Secession, the northerners, “have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books, and pictures to servile insurrection.” By the Northerners encouraging and assisting an ample amount of slaves, it is a tantamount to stealing our property! We, Southerners, have rightfully bought and paid for these slaves! They became our pieces of property when we payed for them! Our property is being taken away from us! Furthermore, going back to Lincoln not keeping his oath, shouldn’t he be pressing charges against all Northerners who have been helping the slaves flee? Not only should they be charged for breaking the fugitive slave law, but also for the deliberate theft of …show more content…
As reinforced earlier, the North wants to free all slaves so they would now become free. If this were to actually happen, we as a society would not be able to survive. The North has not realized that there has never been a successful civilization without the use of slaves. John C. Calhoun, a southern politician, once wrote, “I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one proportion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.” It’s not possible for the Union and the white population to exist without slavery, because that’s just the way society works in the Union and around the world. We live off the work of slaves. The world needs labor and management in order to fulfil the roles that keeps economies of the world running. Without the work of the slaves, it would be a blow that we cannot financially recover from. We would not be able to run our plantations or trade with other countries. There has not been a historical example to prove that we can survive without the work of slaves, therefore we cannot survive without the use of