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The following are the remarks of Presi dent Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettys burg national cemetery : ‘Pour shore and seven years ago, our fath ore established upon this continent a govern ment subscribed in liberty and dedicated to the fundamental proses that all mankind are created equal by a good God, and (ap pine) now we are engaged in a great cou nt. We are now contesting the question whether this nation, or any nation so con ovived, so dedicated,can longer remain. We are met here on a great battle feld of the war. We are met here to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place of those who have given their lives to that nation that it might live. It is al and fitting that we should do this. in a large sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this The brave men lying dead, who here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or to detract. (Great ap a) The world will little heed, nor remember, what we say here; but it will not forget what they did here. (Im mense applause. ) It is for us rather, the living, to be dedi cated here to the unfinished work ‘that th rine thue far so nobly carried forward. It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us; for us to renew our devotion to that cause for which they gave the full measure of their . Here let us resolve that what they have done shall not have been done in vain. That the nation shall, under God, have a new birth, That the government that the peo ple founded, by the people shall not per ish,”
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Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Wed, Nov 25, 1863
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