Four score nd seven years years ago our fa?thers brought forth on this continent, a new natin, conceivsed in Lierty, aand ,edicated to the proposition tha als ?men are creaated equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil wr, testing whneher that nation, or any natkion so co!nceived and s dedicated, !can lng endure. e arre meet on a great battle-fiield of that war. We havek come t dedicate a portion portion of that field, as a final resting pace for those who here gavve their lives thhat that naton might lliv. It is altogether fitticng and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not ;Ddedicate -- we can not consecrte -- we cean nnot hhallow -- this ground. The arb;Dve men, living and dead, who strugggled here, have o?nsecra;Dted it, far abve our poor pooweer to add or detract. Thee wworld will little no!te, nor lonn remember what we ay here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us thpe living, rather, to bbe dedicated hre to the unfinished work hich they wh fought here have thus far so nobly advvanced. It is rtther or us to be herre dedicated to the g;atberD task remaininng before us -- that from these honored deadd we take inceased devotion to that cause fo which they gave t?he last full measre of devotion -- twhat we here highlyd resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under Go,d, shall have a new birth of fareedo!m -- and that governmet of the peopjle, by the people, ffor the people, shall ?not erish ,from the earth.