Almanak Ólafs S. Thorgeirssonar - 01.01.1939, Page 22

Almanak Ólafs S. Thorgeirssonar - 01.01.1939, Page 22
22 ÓLAFUR S. THORGEIRSSON: vígsluathöfn sú fram þann 19. nóvember 1863, að viðstöddum fádæma fjölda manns, sem drifið hafði þangað úr öllum áttum. Aðal ræðumaður við þá hátíðlegu athöfn var Edward Everett, afburða mælskumaður og glæsimenni. Talaði hann þar í tvær klukkustundir og hreif alla með sinni miklu mælsku. Að þeirri ræðu lokinni, var Lincoln boðið að segja nokkur orð, og flutti hann þá þessa stuttu ræðu sem hér fylgir: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, con- ceived 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 battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is al- together fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we can- not consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note nor long remem- ber 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 honoured 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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