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Highland Park News-Letter (1904), 25 May 1907, p. 1

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Buildin may ncrs OIS le. ‘0'! 215 HIGHLAND ‘PARK 1 s1 {NEWS-LETTER} é! KT 1.- Decoration Day. [Vmfiéer Volta}; zo living. rather to he dedicated to the unfinished war]:~ which they who fought here have so nohly advanced. It is 'rather for us to he here dedicated to the great task remaining hefore us. that from these honored dead we take Increased devotlon to that heat}; for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these Jeatl have not died 1n vain: that this nation. finder God. shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people. by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. ‘ 7 We connot bellow tlm ground. The Brave men living and dead W110 struggled here have consecrated - 1t far beyond our power to at“ or detract. The U al“ ‘ world W111 llttle note nor long remember what we. say here. But 1t can never forget what they (11:1 here. It.1a for us. the HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS, MAY 25, 1907 B have come to dedicate a portion of this fielJ as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fittiné and pr0per that we shoold do this. But. in a, larger sense; we cannot Jedicate. we! cannot consecrate. Limo/2275 Address at Gettysburg Number 2 l

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