纪念林肯诞辰200周年.(DOC).doc

2009.02.13奥巴马总统在林肯诞辰200周年纪念活动上的讲话（全文）2月12日，奥巴马总统出席在华盛顿国会山举行的林肯诞辰200周年纪念活动并发表讲话以下是讲话全文，由美国国务院国际信息局（IIP）翻译全文开始)白宫新闻秘书办公室2009年2月12日巴拉克奥巴马总统的讲话纪念林肯诞辰200周年美国国会山华盛顿特区（讲话文字预备稿）我荣幸地站在这里──这是林肯为国效劳的地方，是他宣誓就职的地方，也是他所拯救的国家向他作最后告别的地方在我们纪念我国第16任总统诞辰200周年之际，我不能说我对他的生平和业绩的了解像今天多位演讲者那样深入，但我能说我对这位伟人怀有特殊的感激之情，我个人的历程，以及整个美国的历程，在很多方面要归功于他我们在国会山举行这次纪念活动恰如其分这座建筑与这位永垂不朽的总统的时代有着千丝万缕的联系它由能工巧匠以及移民和奴隶建成──正是在这座圆型大厅内，北方军士兵得到临时医院的救治；正是在下面的地下室里烘烤的面包让他们获得体力；正是今天的参议院和众议院议事大厅，成为了他们夜晚宿营和白天偶尔休息之地这些士兵当年看到的这座建筑与我们今天看到的截然不同因为这座建筑一直到南北战争结束时都还没有完工。

建造这座圆顶大厦的劳工每天上工时不知他们明日是否还再来；不知他们所用的金属梁架是否会被征为军用物资，熔制子弹但时间一天天过去，没有人命令他们停工，他们一直在上工，一直在建造当林肯总统后来得到汇报，得知大量钢铁被用在这项工程上时，他给与了这样一个简洁明了的答复：此乃物尽其用他认为，应当让美国人民知道，即使在战争时期，建设也要继续；即使在国家自身疑虑重重时，它的前途也正在受到保障；当很久以后的一天枪声平息时，国会大厦将巍然屹立，其顶端矗立的自由雕像成为仍在愈合中的国家团结统一的象征今天令我深省的正是这种团结意识，这种即使在我国四分五裂时仍能展望一个共同前景的能力尽管这位伟人的这一特殊品质──他的领袖才能的独特之处──展现在数不胜数的场合中，但我今天希望与你们共同回顾其中一个在南北战争结束前的几个星期，林肯总统在格兰特将军的"女王河"号(River Queen)旗舰上被问到，在李将军（General Lee）投降后将如何处置他的南方军当时胜利近在咫尺，林肯完全可以报仇雪恨他可以迫使南方军为反叛付出沉重代价但林肯却下令，尽管双方都给对方造成了惨重伤亡和巨大痛苦，南方军士兵一律免受惩处他们将被给与——用他的话说——"完全自由的"待遇。

林肯只希望南方军士兵返回家乡，恢复农耕，重操旧业他还说，他甚至愿意"让他们保留自己的马以便拉犁……他们自己的枪以便打鸟"林肯知道，这是让导致国家分裂的伤痕得以弥和的惟一途径，也是让国家迫切需要的愈合得以开始的惟一途径因为林肯从未忘记，即使在南北战争期间也从未忘记，虽然我们有种种差异──北方与南方，黑人与白人──但在内心深处，我们同属一个国家，同是一国子民，我们作为美国人的共同纽带无法割断因此，当我们今天聚首这里时──虽然我们的隔阂远不如林肯时代深重，但却是又一次在经历重大时代问题的辩论，而且是激烈辩论──让我们切记，我们这样做是因为我们是为同一面旗帜效劳的仆人，是同一国子民的代表，是与同一未来息息相关的人这才是我们对杰出的亚伯拉罕林肯的最好纪念──是我们能够为他筑造的最永恒丰碑谢谢大家全文完)12 February 2009President Obama’s Remarks at Lincoln Bicentennial CelebrationObama marks occasion of America’s 16th president’s birth(begin text)THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFebruary 12, 2009Remarks of President Barack ObamaLincoln Bicentennial CelebrationUnited States CapitolWashington, DCAs Prepared for DeliveryIt is an honor to be here – a place where Lincoln served, was inaugurated, and where the nation he saved bid him a last farewell. As we mark the bicentennial of our 16th President’s birth, I cannot claim to know as much about his life and works as many of those who are also speaking today, but I can say that I feel a special gratitude to this singular figure who in so many ways made my own story possible – and who in so many ways made America’s story possible.It is fitting that we are holding this celebration here at the Capitol. For the life of this building is bound ever so closely to the times of this immortal President. Built by artisans and craftsmen, immigrants and slaves – it was here, in the rotunda, that union soldiers received help from a makeshift hospital; it was downstairs, in the basement, that they were baked bread to give them strength; and it was in the Senate and House chambers, where they slept at night, and spent some of their days.What those soldiers saw when they looked on this building was a very different sight than the one we see today. For it remained unfinished until the end of the war. The laborers who built the dome came to work wondering whether each day would be their last; whether the metal they were using for its frame would be requisitioned for the war and melted down into bullets. But each day went by without any orders to halt construction, and so they kept on working and kept on building.When President Lincoln was finally told of all the metal being used here, his response was short and clear: that is as it should be. The American people needed to be reminded, he believed, that even in a time of war, the work would go on; that even when the nation itself was in doubt, its future was being secured; and that on that distant day, when the guns fell silent, a national capitol would stand, with a statue of freedom at its peak, as a symbol of unity in a land still mending its divisions.It is this sense of unity, this ability to plan for a shared future even at a moment our nation was torn apart, that I reflect on today. And while there are any number of moments that reveal that particular side of this extraordinary man – that particular aspect of his leadership – there is one I’d like to share with you today.In the war’s final weeks, aboard Grant’s flagship, The River Queen, President Lincoln was asked what was to be done with the rebel armies once General Lee surrendered. With victory at hand, Lincoln could have sought revenge. He could have forced the South to pay a steep price for their rebellion. But despite all the bloodshed and all the misery that each side had exacted upon the other, no Confederate soldier was to be punished, Lincoln ordered. They were to be treated, as he put it, “liberally all round.” All Lincoln wanted was for Confederate troops to go back home and return to work on their farms and in their shops. He was even willing, he said, to “let them have their horses to plow with and…their guns to shoot crows with.”That was the only way, Lincoln knew, to repair the rifts that had torn this country apart. It was the only way to begin the healing that our 。