The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln is an admonition and warning to what he calls “a new nation” having yet an even newer "birth of freedom".

Instead of a mere short speech to be mentioned, memorized and recited as a poem in schoolastic history classes, the the nation's first legal and defining document is a living, working policy specifically designed to serve as giroscope to obtain and maintain that "new birth of freedom under GOD", whereby the government of this republican democracy of, by, for the people thereof "...will not perish from the earth." 

Lincoln stipulates, however, that such "a new birth" can only occur after the sacred mandates of the Declaration  are not rebelled against, but rather obeyed by the citizenry of these Several United States of America.

America’s triple newness was/is based on the following observations:
First “New”, is the fact that the United States of America was a newly establish geo-political entity among the contemporary, European nations during the season of 1776;

Second “New”, America’s governing process of a first ever republican-democracy is unique in all recorded world history;
• A significant portion for the uniqueness that sets the United States apart from all other nations in world history including those that are Judaic-Christian, is that it places ultimate power into the hands (voting) of the governed people themselves. “…governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

• Only the United States, has brought to the world the new experience of a democratic, voting, peoples’ republic, the very polar opposite of classical monarchy, hence Ordu Norvu Seclorium – “New Order of the Ages” Please see New Order of the Ages

Third “New”, and most significant portion by of which the United States uniquely consist, is the fundamental principles that are outlined in the Declaration of Independence, which are in the Name and/or Character of the Central Figure thereof, for the defending and promulgating human equality in matters of governance.

Other governments throughout history have been self-serving monarchies, whereas the "rebellious" - un-natural United States offers an unusual proposition to the world by its' bold Declaration against such governance stating that rulers must govern "...in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies..." and "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

 In order to bulster their action of rebellion, the founding fathers claimed the special protection granted by "...the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions" to demonstrate the proposition that “…all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…” due to "a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence."

In the annals of world history, such a philosophy and policy of government is aberrational, heretical, out of place, absurd, rebellious and contrary to the natural flow of human behavior n the matters of governance; and therefore for good reasons doomed to failure.  Hence, the American Ideal or Dream is but an experiment in governance.

Thomas Jefferson, the favorite mentor of Lincoln his more famous protégé`, understood this unique, exceptional quality of the United States, which was later tested by the Confederate States Rebellion to the Constitution, the enforcer of the ideals of the nations’ first legal and defining document. Please see Thomas Jefferson, GOD, Chattel Slavery and the United States
That in mind, Lincoln admonishes "we the living" Americans that Union's success of the physical war itself would not be the end of the matter over which it was being waged, but rather, greater tests will follow until GOD is vindicated in the matter of chattel slavery in HIS Name in the land of “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”

Lincoln notes on November 19,1863, at the Gettysburg dedication of the national cemetery there, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”

Yet, either courageously or foolishly, implicating GOD into the venture, the founding fathers established America to defy, not only England’s the natural order of monarchial government that human beings are traditionally used to, but all such ruler-ship on earth.

This published declaration charges their Posterity with the daunting task of perfecting the Union by making the just wholeness of humanity its’ highest moral objective as a new nation on this continent and in the world.

The Un-Natural Act of Libery and Love

The willingness of certain key Americans (one dominant, White-Caucasian, immigrant heritage race) to shed their own blood in civil conflict over the existence of (the minority, Black-Negro), chattel slaves, is a clear indication that the Posterity of this triple-new nation must as those of the Civil War, be willing to suffer for the moral, national cause, regardless of the pain.

In this Judaic-Christian based society, our Holy Scriptures teaches by Jesus Christ the Only Monarch to Whom Chritian Ameicans bow, "Greater love has no man than this, but that he lay his life down for his friends"

Such a feat of moral correctness has never been done by any race or civilization in the history of the world, thereby ranking the We the People of the United States almost in a league of its’ own when it comes to this matter of equal justice for all within the jurisdiction of the State.

In fact, the United States is embouyed with the extraordinary virtue of championing the cause of liberty from tyranny throughout the earth, making it the first, non-monarchial, Judeo-Christian nation in the history of the western world to do so. Policman of the world?!?

A Nation With A Divine Purpose - Exceptional
The other portion is that of the new, new nation’s moral fabric, being one that is unlike any other all of history, secured its’ destiny in the fate of a chattel enslaved people as the model for all humanity to emulate.

In other words, the founding fathers tied the destiny of the free immigrant populations of America with that of the chattel slaves. 

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. correctly observed, "...for many of our white brothers...have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."

Lincoln, like Jefferson, understood that such an aberrational government of, by and for any nations’ citizens, especially ones that espouse such platitudes of virtue as proclaimed in the Declaration, could survive only by Divine favor or providence.

Both these two gentlemen Patriots of separate generations mirroring each other, realized that Divine Providence would come from the Judge of all the world, based on the new nation’s compliance “to that cause” for which the war was being waged.

A New Nation Dedicated To The Cause of A New Birth of Freedom
In doing so, we cause GOD to grant this new geo-political entity “new birth of freedom”, without which, the government that the founding fathers bequeathed their Posterity will cease to exist.

“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.”

Hence, new, new, new nation – New for the time in which it was established in 1776 until 1863. New, in the historical sense of being totally different and opposite of and from traditional form of monarchial rule.

New, in that the well-being of humanity is the central priority of its business with GOD.

While the "new" is established in contemporary time and world history as a reality, the “new birth of freedom” has not yet manifested, lest the nation would not presently be on verge of destruction.

The United States of America! Can and/or Will It Survive?