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LINCOLN'S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon 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 battlefield 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 this 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 or 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 to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly carried on. 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 government of the people, by the people and
for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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United States, and
Island Possessions,
Cuba, Canada and
N.by.
EIPZIG DRESDE
OERUN
For all other
Countries
The Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg was
a cornfield at the time of the Battle, July 1st, 2
and 3rd, 1863. The ground was dedicated as a
Cemetery Nov. 19th, 1863. Hon. Edward Everett
was orator of the day. After Everett had completed
his polished and classical speech of 40 Pages,
President Lincoln delivered his immortal address.
The speeches were made from the spot where the
Soldiers' Monument now stands.
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