echo came, of course, in the Gettysburg Address. Midway through the nation’s most severe test, President Abraham Lincoln, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the battle that had ended there on July 4, 1863, began by invoking Jefferson’s words: “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”33 Lincoln owned a little leather-bound notebook in which he had pasted newspaper clippings as well as the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.34
