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OURSCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO, OUR FATHERS
THIS CONTINENT A NEW
LIBERTY, AND DEDICATED
BROUGHT FORTH UPON
NATION CONCEIVED IN
TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED
EQUAL. NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL
WAR, TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION, OR ANY NA-
TION SO CONCEIVED, AND SO DEDICATED, CAN LONG
ENDURE. WE ARE MET ON A GREAT BATTLEFIELD OF
THAT WAR. WE ARE MET TO DEDICATE A PORTION
OF IT AS THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF 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 LARGE SENSE
WE CANNOT DEDICATE, WE CAN NOT 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 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 HERE 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 AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT
PERISH FROM THE EARTH.
A Lincoln.
85™H
Anniversary
of the
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
FIRST DAY OF ISSUE
3°
SBU
NOVIS
9-AM
1948
PA
THAT GOVERNMENT
OF THE PEOPLE,
BY THE PEOPLE,
FOR THE PEOPLE,
SHALL NOT PERISH
FROM THE EARTH.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THAT GOVERNMENT
OF THE PEOPLE,
BY THE PEOPLE,
FOR THE PEOPLE,
SHALL NOT PERISH
FROM THE EARTH.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
FIRST DAY OF ISSUE
B L Sherwood.
Almond, N. Y.,
