Show Dedication of Historic Battlefield I as Resting Place for Heroic Dead BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fourscore and seven years ago ou our fath fathers r brought forth on this eon continent tm ent a new nation conceived i in liberty horty and dedicated dedicated dedi dedi- to the proposition that all men are created treated equal Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation any or-any or any nation so conceived and so SQ dedica dedicated ed can long endure We are are met on a g great e t battlefield of that war We have hav come coine to dedicate a portion of f that field as a a. final resting place for those who here her gave aye their lives that that at nation might live It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this But in a 8 larger sense we wo cannot dedicate dedicate we we cannot consecrate con con- secrate we we cannot hallow this ground The brave men living liying and dea dead d who v struggled here hero h have ye cons consecrated it far above ori ourn our n poor powel power to add or detract The world will little note nor norong long l remember what we say here but it can ne never r I forgot what the they Y did here It is for us the living rather ath r to o be ded dedicated here to the thc unfinished work b which they who vho fo fought here lore have haye thus thus' far so nobly advanced It is rather forto fo for u us t to be bo here dedicated to the the- great task remaining before us that 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 resolve resolve re re- solve that these dead not have died in vain that that this na nation nation na na- tio tion und under r God sh shall ll have a new anew new birth of freedom and that the tho government of the people by the he people for the tle people shall not perish from the earth 9 |