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FAC-SIMILE

OF THE

GETTYSBURG CEMETERY SPEECH,

AS COPIED OUT FOR ENGRAVING,

BY THE

PRESIDENT, AFTER ITS DELIVERY.

Address delivered at the dedication of the bemetery at Gettysbing.

Four pcose and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continents a new pa= tion, conceives in Liberty,

and dedicated

to the proposition that all men are cres ated equals

Now we are engages in a engaged in a great cu're war; testing whether that's nation, or any nations po conceived and to dedicated, can long englure. Me and met on a great battle fiels of that war. We have come to dedicats a portion of that feed, as or final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might lives. To is actor gether fitting and proper that we should do this,

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hallow thes

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ground, the bravo mew, lis and dead, who struggle here, have cons secrated it, for above our, •poor power to adds or detract, the world will littls note, nor long remember what we pay here, but it caw never forget what they did here. It is for as the living, pother, to be dessicated here to thes unfinished work which they who fow= gho her have thus far so nobly advanced, To is rather for us to be here dedication to the great task remaining before us,_ that from these honores dead we take increaper devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion_that we her

here highly resolve that these dead shall now have drew on vaiw~ that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freer prom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not pers ish from the earth.

November 19. 1863,

Abraham Lincoln,

FAC-SIMILE

OF THE

GETTYSBURG CEMETERY SPEECH,

AS COPIED OUT FOR ENGRAVING,

BY THE

PRESIDENT, AFTER ITS DELIVERY.

Address delivered at the dedication of the bemetery at Gettysbing.

Four pass and seven years ago our fathers brought forth ow this continent, a new pas tion, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are cres ated equals.

Now we are engages in a great cire war, testing whether that nation, or any s any nations po conceived and po dedicated, canlong enfure, Me and met on a great battle fiels of that war. We have come to dedicats a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those whos here gave their lives that that nation might liver. To is alter gether fitting and proper that we should

do this,

But, in a larger sense, we can not dad's

cate- we can not consecrats we can (not)

hallow thes

grounds, The bravo mew, lis ing and dead, who struggled here, have cows secrated to, for above our, •poor power to adds or detract, the world will little note, nor long remember what we pay here, but it can never forget what they did her. To is for as the living, other, to be desticated here to the unfinished work which they who fou= gho her have thus far so nobly acivaweed, To is rather for us to be here dedication to

the

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great task remaining before us __ that from these honores dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the fast full measure of devotion_that her highly resolve that these dead shall now have diew on vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freer prom and that goverment of the people; by the people, for the people, shall not paro ish from the earth.

Normities 19. 1.863,

Abraham Lincoln,

CHAPTER L.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

Keeping Good Workmen-Absence of Favoritism-A Political Revolution -A National Prayer-Meeting-The Coming General-Helpless intrigues.

It would be fair to describe Mr. Lincoln's management of the long list of military commanders under his direction as a persistent effort by him to put each man, as nearly as might be, in the place for which he was best fitted and wherein he could perform the most effective service.

If, having appointed any man to an especial duty, he found him insufficient for it, he was quite willing to transfer him to another. If a strong man's usefulness were impaired or destroyed by local or transitory causes, no undue or continuing weight was ever assigned to these.

Fine illustrations of this rare element in the President's capacity as a ruler are furnished by the records of Generals Burnside and Hooker, after each in turn had ceased to command the Army of the Potomac. Neither Fredericksburg nor Chancellorsville was permitted to deprive the country of valuable services. There was no sort of quarrel between either of them and the Commander-in-Chief, and they went on, in new fields and with other armies, to prove the soundness of his judgment concerning them.

The watchfulness required for the exercise of such a judg ment was all but sleepless, and called for the constant study of circumstances as well as of men and of apparent results. Mr. Lincoln's hours of hard-won solitude were a perpetual "court of inquiry." He followed every movement of every army

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