Which excerpt from President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address best reflects the Union goal of keeping the South in the union? A. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

B. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that our nation might live.

C. 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.

D. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty.