Front:
T VIEAGRAPH CO.
OF AMERICA
RALPH INCE
OF THE
VITAGRAPH PLAYERS
IN HIS PORTRAYAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Back:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
we
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the propo-
sition that all men are created equal. Now we
are engaged in a great civil war, testing wheth-
er that nation or any nation so conceived and
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 alto-
gether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we
cannot consecrate,
cannot
hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it far above
our 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 re-
solve 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."
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