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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-
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hing and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far
above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will lit
tle note, nor long remember,
what we say here, but it can
never forget what they did
here. 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. . 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-
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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.
And back in Gettysburg
New York Herald reporter
strolled over the darkened bat
tlefield in the faint glow of the
moon and went back to the tel
egraph and added a paragraph
to his news story:
"The air, the trees, the graves
are silent. Even the relic hunt
ers are gone now. And the sol
diers here never wake to the
sound of reveille."
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