CLmcoln's StilusbuNTsiiness
Nov.19.-1863
ourscore and seven years ago our
fatbers brought forth on this continent
a new nation.conerived in libertus, and
dedicated to the proposition thaf l men
are created equal.Now we are engaged in
agrat civil war, testing wbether that
nation,or anıs nation, so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on a great batileficld 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 altfogether 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 bere, have
consecrated it, far ahove our poor power to add or de
tract. The world will lifle note, nor long remember
whạt we say here, but if can never forget what they
did here. It is for us the living.rather, to be dedicafed
bere to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. If is rather for us
be bere dedicated to the great tash 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 nahion,
under God, shall have new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people,by the people,for the peeple
shall not perish from the carth
LINCOLNS BIRTHPLACE
LINCOLN HOME AT
SPRINGFIELD,ILL
COPOZRIGHT 1909.UNIVERSTT ART HOP INC EVANSTON IL
