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The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln, Abraham
Hamilton, Joseph Grgoire de Roulhac

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The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln: Selections from His Speeches and Writings
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Grgoire de Roulhac Hamilton

   Edited by Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, Kenan Professor of History and Government, The University of North Carolina

2 pages
Scott, Foresman and Company
Chicago
1922
Source copy consulted: University of Virginia Library E457.92 1922

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Published: 1922

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    Abraham Lincoln

    Selections from His
    Speeches and Writings

    Edited by
    J.G. de ROULHAC HAMILTON
    kenan professor of history and government
    The University of North Carolina
    SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
    chicago new york

       


       


       


       


       


       




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    The Gettysburg Address[Delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetary,
    November 19, 1863 ]

       Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth onthis continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to theproposition that all men are created equal.

       Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether thatnation 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 todedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for thosewho here gave their lives that that nation might live. It isaltogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

       But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can notconsecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men livingand dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poorpower to add or detract. The world will little note, nor longremember, what we say here, but it will never forget what they didhere. It is for this the living, rather, to be dedicated here to theunfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so noblyadvanced. It is rather for us to be here


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    dedicated to the great taskremaining before us -- that from thse honored dead we take increaseddevotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure ofdevotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not havedied in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth offreedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for thepeople, shall not perish from the earth.