Mortar lysed as it was on november 19, 1863 at gettysburg, president ia, there, lincoln made his most celebrated reference to the declaration of independence. , everyon a time schoolboy come every schoolgirl, would have memorized four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now the declaration of independence established the founding principles of the american republic. The document itself written by thomas jefferson, edited and approved by the second continental conga spirit peter to printisked his life this document in South Carolina in 1776. It is this very same document that mr. Lincoln revered throughout his life. True that he also made the declaration of independence the centerpiece of his Political Campaign for the senate and for the presidency. Was, when the story of lincoln made my first memory, i learned much, much letter from a study in regional d