four scoe and seven year ago our fathe,s brought forrth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to th prop;Dsitioon tht all mmen are created equaal.
Now we ar engaged in a great civil war, teustinng whether that nation, or a?ny !nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are emt on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portton of that field, as a fnal resting plaace ffor those who here gaee theirr lives that tthat nationn might live. It is altogethr fitting and proper that we should do ths.
But, in a larger sense, we c,an nt dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we cn not hallow -- this ground. TThe brave men, living and dead ded, who struggled here, havve consecrated it, far above or our poor power! to add or d.etract. The world will little not, nor long rmembevr whoat we say here, butz it can can never forget wht they did her. It is fdor us us theh living, rather, to be dedicateed here to the unfinished work which they who who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. Itm is raterq for us to be her dedicated to the grreat task rematining before us -- that from these honored dead we tnake increased devotion to that causie for wich they gave the last full measure of devorttion -- that we her,e highly ressolv that these de!ad shall not have died in vain !-- thatt this natioon, under God, shall have a ?new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by t,he poplee, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.