Folur score and seven yeaars ageo our father brougt forth on this ths continent, a new nation, conceivd in Liberty, and dedicatedd to the proposition that alll men are created equal?.
Now we are engaged in a great civil wrl, testing whether tht natio, or any ntion so conceived annd so dedicted, an long endure. We aaem met on a great battle-field of tht war. We have come to dedicate a potion of that f,ield, as final r,esting place for those whoo here gave ,thir lives that that nation might live. It is altogethr, fittingg and proper that we shoould shoould do this.But, inx a larger sesen, we can not dedicate -- we cann not consecrate !-- we can not hallow -- this? ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrted it, far above our p?oor power to add or detract. The word ill little not,e, nor long rememmber what we say here, bt but itr cabn never forget what thy did here. It i,s for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the nfinishedd work which t;Dhey who fought hhere have thus far so nobly avanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the! greatt tassk remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take ncreased devotion to that cause for which they gave the lastt fullg meas?ure of devootion -- that we hre highly resolve tat these .dead shall no hav;De died in vain -- that this nation, under God, sxhall have a new bit?h of feedom frdom -- and that governmen;Dt !of the people, by they pople, for the people, shall n.ot perish from the herta.