Show ONE HUNDREDTH anniversary a al r all tr 0 o i B N iff V ta t re 1140 I 1 ni A e X 19 h I 1 V iq 4 a I 1 ai abraham lincoln Linco ln the centen nary hi the immortal abraham lincoln is cing celebrated throughout all the land and w we e are jn th mood to tod dd bour atit part wo we are arc reminded that the great speech of gettysburg helped in no small degree his unusual popularity we submit an excerpt that shows this the tone one oi 0 the speech and an 4 them the spirit 0 of the man VP bom or T ind SL V I 1 N yea ea ra o our ob t this ill continent a new conceived in liberty and dedicated to id the proposition that all wn mn are created equal now ow we are en in agrest a treat civil wat QT lestag mccther that navon 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 1 portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gaie their lives that that nation might live it Is s altogether fitting and proper that we should do this but in a larger large r sense we can not dedicate we tan kalt not consecrate we cin can not no hallow tills this ground the brave men dying jand and lead dead who struggled atre have consecrated it far above out but poor power to add or detracts detract the world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it ean can kamr arget what they did aid he epsa fw us ille living ra 6 dedicated d hereto here bero to tire i n sned work which they who fought here have bale thus far so sc nobly adian dd danced ced it it Is rather ra ther for us us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before Ue that from these honored dead wie wa take increased devotion to that cause tor for which they gave the last full measure or 0 devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in valti vain that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of tile the people for the people shall not perish from the earth |