Transcript of the "Nicolay Copy" of the Gettysburg Address
(Please note that the Nicolay and Hay versions of the Gettysburg
continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not
it can never forget what they did here.
increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last
people, shall not perish from the earth.