Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation