Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1920 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LINCOLN (THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS OF THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR WHOSE BIRTHDAY WE CELEBRATE TODAY) Delivered November 19, 1863. “♦ ♦ ♦ With an unconscious aftr, the President* came forward at the caH, put his spectacles on his nose, and read, in a quiet voice which gradually .warmed with feeling, while hiS care-worn face became radiant with light of genuine emotion, the following brief address:” (Francis F. Browne’s Every Day Life of Lincoln.) “Fourtcore 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 this nation, or any other nation so conceived and so dedicalted, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of the war. We have come td dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place of those who have given their lives that the nation might live. >lt is al' together fitting and proper that we should .do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to adc 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 unfinishec work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly carriet on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining 'before us, and from these 'honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the 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 the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.” —ABRAHAM LINCOLN. —