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COPYRIGHTED.1908
BY M.W.TAGGART, NY.
LINCOLN DELIVERING HIS FAMOUS ADDRESS AT THE
DEDICATION OF GETTYSBURG CEMETERY, NOV. 19, 1863.
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Lincoln's Famous Gettysburg Address
"Four score and seven years ago, our
fathers brought forth on this continent a
new Nation, conceived in liberty and dedi-
cated to the proposition that all men are
created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great Civil 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 remember, 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 un-
finished 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 devo-
tion, 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 govern-
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the
earth." This address was delivered at
the dedication of the Gettysburg Ceme-
tery, November 19, 1863.
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