The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 7, February 13, 2005, Article 28

LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

[In honor of Lincoln's birthday, Arthur Shippee sent us
the text of his famous Gettysburg address, and I thought
I'd reprint it here -- we bibliophiles love words. When
Lincoln said said "The world will little note, nor long
remember what we say here," maybe he believed it, but
his concise and memorable remarks stand for the ages
thanks for the power of print. -Editor]

Address at the Dedication of the cemetery at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that
war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,
as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot
consecrate -- we cannot hallow this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated
it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It
is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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