【正文】 from the ：1863年11月19日地點：美國，賓夕法尼亞，葛底斯堡八十七年前，我們先輩在這個大陸上創(chuàng)立了一個新國家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生來平等的原則。我們在這場戰(zhàn)爭中的一個偉大戰(zhàn)場上集會。我們這樣做是完全應(yīng)該而且非常恰當(dāng)?shù)摹Ｄ切┰谶@里戰(zhàn)斗過的勇士們，活著的和去世的，已經(jīng)把這塊土地圣化了，這遠不是我們微薄的力量所能增減的。毋寧說，倒是我們這些還活著的人，應(yīng)該在這里把自己奉獻于勇士們已經(jīng)如此崇高地向前推進但尚未完成的事業(yè)。第四篇：林肯總統(tǒng)的就職演講林肯總統(tǒng)的就職演講First Inaugural Address of Abraham LincolnMONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861FellowCitizens of the United States:In pliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of this office.“I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be has never been any reasonable cause for such , the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare thatI have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them。and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now ining add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever causeas cheerfully to one section as to is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves。and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be is seventytwo years since the first inauguration of a President under our National that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great , with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument : If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as acontract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate itbreak it, so to speakbut does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union Union is much older than the was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ”to form a more perfect Union.“But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union。but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and universal as to prevent petent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that the strict legal right may exist in the Government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the far as possible the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm though