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The Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln, Abraham
36 x 54 Giclee Print
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This art print offers great
historical value because it portrays the Lincoln Memorial with the
inspiring words of the Gettysburg Address,
Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech, and one of the greatest
speeches in American history, in the background. Gettysburg Address
was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery
in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, four and a half
months after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Lincoln summarized the war in
ten sentences, rededicating the nation to the war effort and to the
ideal that no soldier at Gettysburg—Federal or Confederate—had died
in vain.
The 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 that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battle-field 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.
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. 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 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 perish from the earth.
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