[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 203 (Tuesday, November 23, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1268]
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              158TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 23, 2021

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, in recognition of the 
158th anniversary of President Lincoln's famous Civil War speech in 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I believe it is appropriate that we take the 
time to remember these meaningful words.

                           Gettysburg Address


              President Abraham Lincoln--November 19, 1863

       ``Fourscore 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 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 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 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 add 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 
     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 honored 
     dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they 
     here 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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