The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-11-20
Conservation of the National Cemetery at
Gettysburg.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Nov 10.
The ceremonies attending the dedication OF
the National Cemetery commenced this after
noon by grand military and civic display,
under the command OF Maj. Gen. Couch.
The line of march was taken up at ten
o'clock, and the procession marched through
the principal streets to the Cemetery, where
the military formed in line and saluted the
President At a quarter past eleven the head
of the procession arrived at the main stand.
The President and members of the Cabinet,
together with the chief military and civic dig
nitaries, took positions at the stands. The
President seated himself between Mr.. Seward
and Mr.. Everett. After reception with the
respect and perfect silence due to the soem-
nifty OF the occasion, every man in the i'm
mense gathering uncovering on his appear
ance. The military then formed in line, ex-
tending around the stand, the area between
the stand and the military being occupied by
civilians, comprising about 10000 people, and
including men, women and children. The
military escort comprised one squadron of
cavalry, two batteries of artillery and a regi-
ment of infantry, which constituted the regu-
lar funeral escort of honor for the highest
officer in the service.
After the performance of a funeral dirge by
the band, an eloquent prayer was delivered by
Rev. Mr.. Stockton. Mr.. Everett then deliv-
cred an Grafton, which was listened to with
marked attention.
The President then delivered the following
dedicatory speech:
-Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal
tApplause.) Now we are engaged in great
civil war, testing whether that nation or any
nation SO conceived and so dedicated can long
endure. We are met on great battlefield oil
that war. We ale met to dedicate a portion
OF it as a final resting place of those who have
given their lives that that nation might live.
1t is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this, but in larger sense we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here have consecrat-
ed it far above our power to add or detract.
(Applause.) The world will not note nor long
remember what we say here. but it can never
forget what they did here. tApplause) 1t is
for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work that they have thus
so far noby carried on. loud applause
1t is rather for us to be here, dedicated to
the great task remaining before us, that from
these honored dead We take increased deba-
ton to that cause, for which they here gave
the last full measure of devotion, that we here
highly resolve that the dead shall not have
died in vain. tApplause.l That the nation
shall, under God, have new bath of freedom
and that the government of people by the
people, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth. Long continued applause
Three cheers were here given for the Presi-
dent and the Governors of the States. After
the delivery of this address, the dirge and the
benedction, the exercises concluded, and the
immense assemblage departed about O'clock