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MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDPORD. OREGON MONDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 1M3 MEETS ASTRONAUTS President Kennedy ' space capsule) to arrive. at Cape Canaveral talks with Mprrnrv nctrnnnntc Cnrrlnn Cnnna f t.rtin. nni.. ; me v ... j.. -; ijj j "viwuii uwtsva, wi iconiig cmiy in xaot. lYcitucuy .iiiciuueu center, and Gus Grissom, right, while stand- the Cape on a weekend speaking tour of ing in front of the first Gimini (two man Florida. (UPI) ' Gettysburg: Lincoln's Speech By MERTON T. AKERS United Press International ' ' The orator of the day came to the end of his speech. "Down to the latest period ol recorded time,: in the glorious annals of our common country there will be no brighter page than that which relates to the battles of Gettysburg." it was the closing sentence a speech by Edward Everett, the foremost orator of the time, who addressed that day Nov. 19, 1863 a crowd of 15,000 some said as many as 50,0008 gathered at the little town in Pennsylvania where the Union Army had turned back the in vading Confederates four and a half months before. Now a cemetery was being dedicated for the men who fell there the known and the unknown. This was the crowning ora tion for Everett who had deliv ered a hundred or more. The ceremony had been posptoned a month to give him time to prepare. Everett ransacked nistory from Pericles to date for par allels to the event. He spoke in detail about the battle, pausing to pav tribute to the men who had fallen and "who sleep be; neath our feet." He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes. The audience was at tentive some contemporary accounts said it was spellbound: Completing his peroration, his head flung back, his white hair awry, the orator paused dramatically and returned to his chair. The Baltimore Glee Club of 100 voices sang i dirge written for the occasion.' Then Ward Hill Lamon, Dis trict of Columbia marshal and long-time friend of Lincoln, rose and said: "The President of the United States." Lincoln ' took : a manuscript from air inside pocket, put on steel-rimmed glasses and stood high above the crowd. The audience was restless aft er three hours of ceremonies. The fringes began to ravel away. A hum of talk rose. Lincoln waited for the crowd to quiet. . Then he began to speak in the high pitched voice Illinoisans new so well but which rang as alien in this eastern land. But the treble tones carried to the farthest reach of the crowd be cause he had honed the voice on the stumps of Illinois politi cal campaigns. Lincoln said: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new na tion, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing wheth er 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 alto gether fitting and proper that we should do this. "But in a larger, sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, Uv- PROPOSALS AXED SALEM (UPI) Pn to cut the pay of legislators and other state employes were axed bv Democrats Friday on both sides of the legislature. OPEN Sundays 635 E. Jackson f LOOK FOR THIS LABEL . . . IT'S YOUR GUARANTEE OF QUALITY AND SATISFACTION. 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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining be fore us that from these hon ored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full meas ure of devotion that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free dom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Polite Recognition Ten sentences 269 words two, perhaps three minutes and the President had finish ed. The audience scarcely had settled back when it was all over. The applause was per functory, a few hand claps,' po- A 3 . THIS mi ft mmi WAi ins CIVIL' WAR lite recognition for a man who "also spoke." : In front of the stand a pho tographer missed the picture because there wasn't time to adjust his unwieldly camera and wet plates. The President's "few appro priate remarks" which the cemetery commission had ask ed him to make an after thought on its part only two weeks before fell flat. "Lamon, that speech won't scour," Lincoln said. "It's a flat failure and the people are disappointed." (Again Lincoln was using a homely phrase. Any farm boy of his day knew that when wet soil clung to a plow, the mold board wouldn't scour.) . Nearly everybody there agreed with the President. The next day many big news papers carried the text of Lin coln's speech, Inserting (ap plause five . times on their own responsibility. But some of the world did note what he said there. The .Chicago Tribune said the speech "will live among the annals of men." Another Chicago newspaper, the Times, called it "silly, flat and dishwatery." The Philadelphia Bulletin said "not many will (read It) with out a moistening of the eye and a swelling of the heart." The London Times said it was "dull and commonplace." And so on, most ridiculed it, a few praised. Later Everett would write to the President about other things and include this line: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came so near the central thought of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.". Lincoln Pleased Lincoln replied that lie was "pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure." . That night Lincoln returned to Washington on his four-car special train. He was tired and lay down on a seat in his draw ing room and put a wet towel over his eyes. . About midnight he was back at the Whito House and learned that his son, Tad, who had been ill when he left, now was recovered. In a week the President him. self would be ill of varioloid, mild form of smallpox. 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