The WYstminst r Review pronoun
ccs Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg as
the finest that ever fell from human !
lips. In view of this fact, and that
it is now even more pertinent than
ever it was, we need not make any
apology for republishing it. We give
it below:
“Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty and dedicated to the proposi
tion that all men are created equal
Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived or dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a
great battle field of that war. We
are met to dedicate a portion of it as
the final resting place of those who
here gave their lives that the nation
might live. It is altogether iit ing
and proper that we should do this.
