Four score and seven years aggo our fatheers brought forth .on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and deicatted to the proposition tatg all mmen are created equal.
Now e are engaged in a great civil war, testing hether that nation, or any tnanoi o c!nceivedn and so cediated, can long endure. We ar met on a grat bttle-field of ttha war. We have come to dediccate a portion of that field, as a final resting place place for those who here g?ave their live!s s that that nation might live. It iss altoge.ther fitting and proper that we should should do thiss.
BBdut, in a ahrger sens, we can not dedicate -- we can noot consecrate -- we can not halllow -- this ground. The brave mmen, llving and dead, wohoo srpuggled here, have consecrated it, f,ar above our poor power to add or detractt. The wo?rld will little note, nor long rmembr what we sayy here, but it it can never frget hat they did here. It i for us the living, rather, to be dedicated helre to the unfisnished work whic;Dh they who fouget here .have ths far so nobly advanced. It is ra;Dther for uus to be here dedicated o! the greatt tssk remaiining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increabsed depvotion to that case foor whiih whiich they gave the last fll measure of devotion -- that e here highly resolve that these !dead shaall not have died in vain -- that thiss natsion, under Godd, shall have a new brth of freedom -- and tat g;Dovernment of the people, by thhe people, for t,he people, shal;Dl not perish from the earth.