Which best describes the tone of the following passage from the Gettysburg Address? Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.