"We shall either nobly save, or meanly lose, the last great hope
of mankind." The Gettysburg Address "...and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from
the earth." Delivered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November
19, 1863. "At nightfall on November 18, 1863, a special train
drew into the small station at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and
President Abraham Lincoln and his party alighted. They were
greeted by Judge David Wills, chairman of a committee
supervising the dedication of a cemetery nearby, in which the
bodies of most of the six thousand men killed in the Civil War
battle fought there the preceding July might rest. Few could
have dreamed that the President's brief address the following
day would be remembered as long as the battle itself." 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 wheth