Gettysburg Address Rhetorical Analysis

Paper 6 Frederick Douglas gave his speech, “The Reason for Our Troubles,” on January 14, 1862; a year after the Civil War came underway. Douglas was frustrated that Lincoln avoided bringing up slavery and its connection to the war. Douglas explained his ideas on the cause of the Civil War, and the route that the North should take. His main cause was slavery, which he declared was a much larger issue than just the union within the states. Douglas was quite persuasive in his reasoning in pushing the North to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln did not seem to base his concerns on Douglas, when he gave the “Gettysburg Address,” on November 19, 1863. The focus of the address was that the war was truly about him and America using liberty, and freedom …show more content…
Not the whole speech but it did. Both men noticed that America’s founding ideals were treated within the war. Lincoln believed the cause of the Civil War was not to free the slaves, but to rather keep the country united. As the war went on, Lincion kept that belief, but as the war went on he realized that freeing the slaves was a part of the war. In his address, he said, “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—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—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.” Lincoln did not want the Union members who fought to die in vain when he gave the last full measure this speech at the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Taking into consideration that he was a new birth of freedom and for the people, Lincoln wanted freedom and liberty for

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