war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a
final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this.

"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 struggled 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, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth."

President Lincoln. Address at the Dedication of the National
Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM APPLIED IN THE EXTERNAL JUSTICIARY
RELATIONS OF THE AMERICAN UNION, BY PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.

"In order to facilitate the most humane, specific, and
effective extension of authority throughout [the Philippine