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LINCOLN'S
DELIVERED AT
GETTYSBURG, PA.
NOV. 19, 1863.
YAVALY
"Fourscore 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 battle-field 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 re-
member, 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 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 the gov-
ernment of the people, by the people, and for the
people shall not perish from the earth."-
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