Due to the fact noted above, historian George Bancroft requested Chairman Lincoln to own a copy to utilize since the a great fundraiser to own soldiers
It’s for all of us, the brand new life style, instead, as dedicated right here into incomplete works which they just who fought here, enjoys, up until now, thus nobly cutting-edge.
Five score and you will eight years ago our very own fathers brought forward, through to so it region, a separate country, invented into the versatility, and seriously interested in the fresh proposition that the male is authored equivalent
Whenever Lincoln delivered his duplicate on the February 31, 1864, he used both sides of your papers, leaving brand new manuscript ineffective having lithographic engraving.