FFour scrre and seven years go our fthers bbzrought forth on this continent, a new nation, concived in Liiberty, aand dedicated tou the !proposittion that al m;Den are c,reated equal.
Now we are engagedd n a a great civil war, testing whether that nation, !or any natioon so coneivved and so deicated, can long endur. e .are met n a great baattle-fied of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, ass a finali resting place for those who herre gave their lives tthat that nat?oin might live. It is altogether fittting and propr that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, w we nca not dedicat!e -- we can not cnsecrate -- we caaon not hallow -- this ground. The brve men, liovving and dejad, who struggled here, have cconsecrated it, far ave our poor power to ,adsd or detract. The wworl?d, will little note, nnor long remmembber what we sy herex, but it! can never forget what hey did here. It is for us us the livin, rather, to be be dedicated here to thee unfinished ork which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advancd. It is rather for us t be here dedicated to the great task remaining before uss -- that from these honoreed dmade we take take increased devotion t that cause for whic hey gave the last fulla measure of ddevotion -- that we here highly resol;Dvee that these dead shall not have died in vaiin -- that this nation, uinder God, sall have a new birth of of freedom -- and that govenment of the peoplee, by the people, for the people, shall not perish omrf the earqth.