Thanks, Jane. Here's the original painting. . .

Gettysburg Address 2020

Twelve score and four 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 we are engaged in a cold civil war, testing whether that Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are engaged on many battle-fields of that war — in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.

Will these fields of battle become the graveyard and final resting place for the free Republic that millions of American men and women risked or gave their lives for?

In the haste of our everyday lives, we Americans tend to forget how sacred and hallowed the very ground we walk on truly is. The brave men and women, living and dead, who struggled for Freedom, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract from it with mere words.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget the birthright of Freedom these Patriots preserved for us through their Courage and Wisdom.

The task before us then, as living Americans, is to remain steadfast to the cause of Freedom for which so many Patriots gave the last full measure of devotion.

We here highly resolve that our Heroes shall not have died in vain — that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of Freedom — and that Government of the People, for the People, and lawfully elected by the People shall not perish from this earth.

American landscape painter Edward Moran created the 8-foot tall painting “Commerce of Nations Rendering Homage to Liberty” in 1875, more than a decade before the statue was constructed in New York Harbor.

He created the painting at the request of artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi whose statue was to be a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. The painting was used to raise funds to complete the statue dedicated in 1886 that became a welcoming sight for millions of immigrants processed at nearby Ellis Island.