After Nicolay’sĭeath in 1901, his copy passed to his friend and colleague, John Hay.ĭescendants of John Hay donated both copies to the Library of Congress Of his two private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay.
President Lincoln gave one of these copies to each Wrote the second shortly after his return to Washington from Gettysburg May have written out one of these before he gave the address, and he probably holds the two earliest copies of the manuscript. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences, or consider using the latest version of Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Internet Explorer, or Safari. 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.Attention: Your web browser currently has JavaScript disabled or does not support JavaScript, so this website will NOT function and/or display as intended. 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. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. 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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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.
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