« Voici quatre-vingt-sept ans que nos pères ont apporté sur ce continent une nouvelle nation, conçue dans la liberté et fondée sur la proposition que tous les hommes ont été créés égaux. Nous sommes aujourd'hui engagés dans une grande guerre civile, nous...

Four score 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...

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first...