The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

1. The Gettysburg AddressAbraham Lincoln

2. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1512410 • Delivered on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. • Second speaker, preceded by orator, Edward Everett who spoke for two hours.

4. On November 20, Everett wrote the following words to Lincoln. • “ Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity and appropriateness, at the consecration of the Cemetary. I should be glad, if could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

5. Vocabulary • score- a set of twenty • conceive- to form in the mind;plan; to form or hold an idea. • proposition- a statement that is to be proved true; claim; principle • endure- to last; to continue in existence • engaged- involved

6. dedicated- to set apart for a purpose(ie.religious); to commit to a particular thought or course of action; to open to public use. • detract -remove some of the value or worth • consecrate-to make holy • hallow- to honor as sacred or holy • note- give attention to

7. The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicatedto the proposition that all men are created equal. Eighty seven years ago our forefathers brought to this continent a new nation created and planned by the idea of freedom and committed to the claim that all men are created equal.

8. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Now we are involved in a civil war which will determine if a nation that is born of and is committed to such a principle can last.

9. . 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. We are meeting here on that battlefield to setapart a portion of it as a cemetery for those who died so that the nation could survive. This is the right thing to do.

10. But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. Considering the bigger picture, we cannot set it aside to make this ground holy; we cannot honor it. The men who fought here have made it sacred in a way that we cannot add to or take away from.

11. 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. The world will not notice and will not remember the things we say here, but it won’t forget what these brave men did here. Instead we must be committed to completing the mission that they began for us.

12. 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 their last full measure of devotion- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain- We must instead remain committed to the cause for which these men died, to be sure that they did not die for no reason.

13. that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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