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LINCOLN'S ADDRESS
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19, 1863
"Fourscore and
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the prop-
osition that all men are created equal. ** Now
are engaged in a great civil
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicatéd, can long endure. ** We are met
on a great battle-field of that war.
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.
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.
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 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
freedom, and that the government of the people,
by the people, and for the people shall not perish
from the earth."
seven
years ago our
fathers
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But
It is for us,
new birth of
Freedom
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By the Act of Congress of June 14, 1777, it was
resolved that the Flag of the United States would consist
of thirteen stripes, alternating red and white and that the
Union be represented by thirteen white stars upon a blue
field. One by one as the States entered the Union, another
star was added until today our Flag has forty-eight stars,
one for each State in the Union.
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