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    Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. In the address, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, as founded on the principle that all men are created equal, could long endure. He called on those present to resolve to fight for the Union and ensure that the soldiers who died at Gettysburg did not do so in vain, and that the nation would have a new birth of freedom.

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    Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. In the address, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, as founded on the principle that all men are created equal, could long endure. He called on those present to resolve to fight for the Union and ensure that the soldiers who died at Gettysburg did not do so in vain, and that the nation would have a new birth of freedom.

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    Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. In the address, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, as founded on the principle that all men are created equal, could long endure. He called on those present to resolve to fight for the Union and ensure that the soldiers who died at Gettysburg did not do so in vain, and that the nation would have a new birth of freedom.

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    Gettysburg Address

    Fourscore 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 battlefi eld of that war. We have come
    to dedicate a portion of that fi eld as a fi nal resting-place for those who here gave their lives
    that that nation might live. It is altogether fi tting and proper that we should do this.
    But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. Th e brave men,
    living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
    Th e 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 unfi nished 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 usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for
    which they gave the last full measure of devotionthat 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.

    Abraham Lincoln
    Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 3 November 19, 1863

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