Text of Gettysburg Address 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 the nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, canong endure. We are met on a great at of that war. We have come to dedicate a person of
that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their ives that that nation might ive. It is altogether fing 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 or above our poor power to add or detract
The world will inte note, nor long remember what we say here, but 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 to
so noby advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take ncreased devotion to the cause for which they gave the measure of
devotion that we here high 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
peris from the earth
Which of the following excerpts from the speech could be construed as an end to slavery?
a new birth of treedom
"Four score and seven years ago
We are met on a great baie
we are engaged in a great it war