Four score and seven years ago urr fathers brought forth on this contirnent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition proposiion tha, all men are creeated equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil wa, testing ;Dwh!ether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dwedpicated, can long endure. We are met on ?a great ba;Dttle-fi?eld ,of tha war. We have come to dedic!t a a portion of that field, as a final resting pl?ce for those who here gave their lives that that nation mightt lipve. It ?is altogether fiittingg and proper that we houuld do this.
But, in a argenr sense, we carn n dedicate -- we can not conscrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave en, living and? dead, who struggled here, have consecrated i, far above our poor powe,r to dd or or detract. T!he world will lttlme note, nor long remember what? we say here, but it can never forget wh.t they did here. It is for us the livving, rather rthr, to be dedcated here to the unfinished work which theey who fought here have thuts far so nobly advaunced. It is rather for us to be he he.re dedictated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devvtion to hat cse for which they gave the last fulll measure of devotion -- that we here highll!y resolve ahtt these dead hall nott hav?e died in vvaiin -- that this natio, uunder God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that gnovernment f the peoplye, by the people, for the ppeople, shall not perish from the earth.