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, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln returned to Washington feeling that his speech was a failure and responded to a letter from Edward Everett with, I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure.

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