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 crested eque..
Nicer me are engaged in a great cuill war..... 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, Wing 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
Jfrom The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincaln
Which is the purpose of this speech?
• 1. to convince people to become soldiers
• 2, to describe a battlefield in the Civil War
• 3. to explain the history of the United States
4, to recognize the soldiers who fought in the war