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* 1865年4月14日晚10时15分,就在
南方军队投降后第5天,林肯在华 盛顿福特剧院被布斯枪杀。同情南 方的演员约翰·布斯趁总统保镖离开 之时,悄悄溜到总统包厢在戏剧高 潮开枪击中了林肯。开枪8次被击 中6次,5次命中要害。周围的人都 没听到枪声。4月15日,美利坚合 众国第16任总统亚伯拉罕·林肯与世 长辞,有700多万人停立在道路两 旁向出殡的行列致哀,有150万人 瞻仰了林肯的遗容。
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯
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葛底斯堡说词
The Gettysburg Address Fourscore 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
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not
hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,who struggl-
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-ed here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to - that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve - that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.