Despite never having historically represented the Confederate States of America as a country, nor officially recognized as one of its national flags, the rectangular Second Confederate Navy Jack and the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia are now flag types commonly referred to as “the Confederate Flag”. They both have become a widely recognized symbol of the American south. It is also known as the rebel flag, Dixie flag, and Southern cross and is often incorrectly referred to as the “Stars and Bars”. (The actual “Stars and Bars” is the first national flag, which used an entirely different design.) The self-declared Confederate exclave of Town Line, New York, lacking a genuine Confederate flag, flew a version of this flag prior to its 1946 vote to ceremonially rejoin the Union.
Text from the Hay draft of the Gettysburg Address.
The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Four score and seven years ago 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, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 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 here 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.
I received this form email from my Representative Patrick Meehan in response to an email I sent suggesting he defund the train wreck known as ObamaCare. He better be sincere. “We The People” have had enough!
The resolution now goes to the Senate, where the Democrats who control the chamber will surely kill the provision. They’ll send it back to the House, which will have to vote on whether or not they accept the funding resolution that reinstates money for this economy killing monstrosity.
The Senate better realize how mad average working Americans are. The majority of the American people do not want this piece of crap.70% of Americans don’t want Socialized medicine!
Pick up the phones, folks. Call your corrupt Senators ask them to DEFUND before this gets ugly!
Thank you for contacting me in support of defunding Obamacare in the government-funding bill, known as a continuing resolution. I appreciate having the benefit of your views.
I just voted to defund President Obama’s health care law. The continuing resolution averts a government shutdown and ends federal funding for President Obama’s misguided health care law. The people of Pennsylvania’s Seventh District sent me to Washington to fix the federal government, not shut it down. The continuing resolution passed by the House keeps the federal government open for business and improves our country’s fiscal health by responsibly cutting Washington’s out-of-control spending.
The implementation of Obamacare has been, in the words of one senior Democratic senator, “a train wreck.” The law’s supporters said it would lower costs, but instead it’s raised them. They said you can keep your doctor and your health plan, but that is false. They said it would create jobs, but it’s costing jobs. That’s why I will continue working to defund, delay, dismantle and repeal this train wreck and replace it with common-sense, patient-centered reforms to lower costs and expand access for all.
Again, thank you for contacting me regarding defunding Obamacare. For your convenience, please visit my website at www.meehan.house.gov, to sign up for my e-newsletter. Please also take a moment to follow me on Twitter @RepMeehan.
Sincerely,
Patrick Meehan
Member of Congress
