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littlemissmartypants

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12. He was trying to be eloquent while actually bastardizing a speech by Lincoln.
Thu Sep 1, 2022, 10:18 PM
Sep 2022

July 10, 1858

...If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.


https://vindicatingthefounders.com/library/electric-cord-speech.html

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He was trying to be eloquent while actually bastardizing a speech by Lincoln. littlemissmartypants Sep 2022 #12
"That is the electric cord in that Declaration..." Sogo Sep 2022 #14
Cord to kite experiment by Franklin... littlemissmartypants Sep 2022 #17
McCarthy completely missed the point, didn't he? crickets Sep 2022 #18
Yes, he missed the boat by a mile. You're welcome, crickets. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Sep 2022 #19
I've got to think that "electric cord" should be "electric chord" where electric means...... EarnestPutz Sep 2022 #34
Lincoln's speech..."cord" is used. Interesting though though. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Sep 2022 #35
You're no doubt right. Re-reading the speech again makes me see how "cord" makes more sense EarnestPutz Sep 2022 #38
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