Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G Meade, Major General Winfield S Hancock, Major General John F Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . ently told to theworld the glory and renown both armies achieved on the bloody fieldof Gettysburg, and I shall not attempt to add anything to what hasbeen said and written. Someone has said that seventy years should be called the idealage of man; that at that age he realizes that he has about accom-plish
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George G Meade, Major General Winfield S Hancock, Major General John F Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . ently told to theworld the glory and renown both armies achieved on the bloody fieldof Gettysburg, and I shall not attempt to add anything to what hasbeen said and written. Someone has said that seventy years should be called the idealage of man; that at that age he realizes that he has about accom-plished his lifes work, and the romance and fallacies of youth haveall vanished and he can review the past philosophically and awaitthe future with confidence and composure. All the bitterness of the war has gone with the flight of stand here today glorying in one common Flag—the Flag of a Re-united Country. We are, as a nation, today stronger and greaterthan ever before—stronger and greater because fifty years ago greatissues were settled that had to be met. We can all of us now, withone heart and with one voice, appropriate to ourselves the immor-tal words uttered here on this spot fifty years ago, that this is agovernment of the people, by the people, and for the people, and.
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