Show Five Copies of Lincoln's Speech At Gettysburg Abraham I s address at Get Gettysburg Gettysburg Is unIque amon among his speeches In many particulars one of which Is 18 that there are In existence ot at the pI pies pies- es- es ent time no less than the fire copies of It In J s 0 awn n riling In a few Is there a single Ingle copy of other speeches The first ural for Instance was as composed In Springfield Ind set up In pIca type In Inthe inthe the office ot of the illinois State Journal and after some ome and the Addition ot of a clo closing paragraph su lug hy by SecretarY St Seward ward was as de- de delI delivered lI livered red from the corrected proof and not from the original manuscript So SoI Sotar I tar far as I am am aware n the manuscript was ns not brought away ny from Springfield by Lincoln nor ed In the printing The Journal for many years had bad been accustomed to receiving edl and other matter In his hand v and neither the editor Simian Francis nor anyone any one of his compost tors tool thought that this was as to he- he come a document of historIc Interest and that the orl original would tic tc salu able Copy Not Preserved Most or of LIncoln s speeches sIle ches It if wilt ten out met a me hike fate It If the copy came hack back from the office Ith the proof LIncoln tos tossed c It Into the waste wastebasket aste basket and aDd no one rescued It it After he became of course he knew and Cry e one knew v that his handwriting would lie be In demand but no one ODe looked for tor the time when hen his letter to General r would sell nt at auction for So most of hIs speeches perished in the original manuscript perished In H Hery ery pros proc ess es of preserving them In print and ond of the few that HInt were there la 18 usually only one copy The five fhe copies cople of the Gettysburg address two are In the Library ot of Congress On Ont of them Is mainly In ink on n a of head hend MallI eel with the usual uthe Mall Mati I Iun caption The other sheet is 18 ruled Ie litter ncr pal paler er of tile the same MOte size and with w Ide spaces paces between tile the lines It Is the paper poper that was commonly used in inUI UI thi R bite nou for Speeches or die dc- likely to need and aDd Is Identical In qua quality lily with Uh that used by the Ir fur for the second I secondI draft dratt or of the Gettysburg forthe speech and for forI forI the second inaugural The rUin on I the second clond sheet ot of the first draft ot of the address Is In pencil The pencil was as used nl also o to erase a few words nt at the bottom of the first pahe the second I or of Congress draft Is a fair copy of the first draft It Is written wholly In Ink stopping here and now to gIve my reasons I believe that the first page of the first tJI draft art was as writ written written ten In ink before left Wash WashIngton Washington Ington If he completed this draft at atthe atthe the time and there was a second In Ink he became dIssatisfied with Ith It and cast It asIde I think he wrote rote the second page In pencil In Gettys Getts Gettysburg burg probably on the night aught e a the thedell dells dell dellery ery ol the address The second Library or of Congress draft dratt I think was written In Gettysburg on the morning of the delivery The place of writing was ns In the home or of Judge 1 foe lag Ing the public square Just to dispose of a question Ich Ichla la Is sure to rise whether hether Lincoln did not the address upon the bath badt of an em envelope elope on the train on his way ay from Washington to Gettysburg bur let me answer er that he may hat ha hae hamade e c made a few pencIled note and for tor thIs purpose may ha e rase used the back backor backof or of an envelope but he be did not the address as a whole hole In on any such cuch fashIon In my mv jud went the two VO Library of Congress drafts were ere both t Lincoln Me hi a at the dedica Uon ion of th the National at Gettysburg ta 19 1863 written before the delivery ot of the addre address s Of f the other othel thrEe te e I snow no the history They were ere all written otter after the address had ball been d lIvered Five Texts of Speech The fir first d two t copies vary but little from each other The last three copies copl s sarv but little from one on an another other How they vary I have hn sit forth lu interlinear In my life i of The Tho Import lilt tut fact Is that we e hale hu fie e texts In InI inI I handwriting no h two 0 of them exactly alike and that they fall clearly into two 11 grups two t In one and the earlier group three In the theother theother other and the later latu group roul nm and that we e know In detail the history ot of the thelast thelast last three Intermediate between een these SC two groups in n 0 own n hand are o 0 number of other versions d prim d at al althe atthe the time I hat of these Is the As Press report prepared by Jo seph I L Gilbert ne lie did not pre end to hate e taken do down don n i s enact words but reported the speech partly In shorthand and cheil ched ed liP up in n a hasty comparison with Ith Lincoln's man manuscript 1 Zhe he second was ns a special re- re report re- re report port used In one nets S paper one Cincinnati ne newspaper spa per and andin In the local ne newspaper In Gett Gettysburg It was n a sera er poor report The Tho thIrd IS as J I Judge the one report t that tells u us c exacts what hat I did say It was by Charles Halo of the Boston Ad crUser one of the official commissioners Ills written affirmation to Gov John A Andrew that I spoke cry sery slow b 13 and that Hale Haleas was as able to get thE he precise wording Is as good as the oath ot of a court stenographer certifying the accuracy ot of his erslon We know v I think what hat Lincoln Intended to say what he did any what he was vas reported to hl e saId und and what he wished he had said suld Surely Lincoln's Words Neither of the drafts of Lincoln's manuscript before tile the delivery or of the address contains the 1 two 10 0 words under God Both oth sty that that e w e hell het e high highly I resole e that the nation shall ha lase hae e n a new birth of freedom Put e report good bad and Indifferent says sas thit the na nation tion shall under God have bave a new birth of fl There was as no con com common mon source from all the r report port ens could ha hate hae e obtained tho those e words 01 ds but from flom Lincoln's own lips nt at the tI time me or of delivery clel h ery It will III not do clo to say that Stanton suggested those word after I s return to 11 for the words were telegraphed b at least three reporters on the afternoon ot of delivery and published all oser OHr the country will It answer er to say that Seward cu suggested ested them the night before as words that would coney comey to the people assembled a su of piety for John G gives n a dear clear of the writing of the second draft on the morning of ery and tile the draft does not include those tho words nut But all three of I s copies that were ere made after atter the address hid been dell ered do the words of the three or more reports made while he was speaking under God said those words the several Independent reports that sent ent to the sores Ires ot at once agree that he be said suld them and i cel certainly wished to he be remembered as Ilin haling Ing said them for tor lie he wrote rote them Into eHry one or of orthe the three copIes which he made fir tor record records s here then did Lincoln get bet those words lie He got them I think out of Ills his 0 own D stock ot of phraseology lie He was AS not 11 gisen en to too the careless use or of re- re re phrases but this one he used at other times It came to him as ashe ashe he sat on the platform at Gettysburg Inspired by tile the sense ot of the upon him flu Tbt journey the reception ot of the lie lie- fore fure the parade the of the hat the lung rind 01 or of Edward Ed Truitt and flit nl III depth ot of fellIng feeling as his 0 man n to speak roused In n or u 11 ot of thu nation s nit nel II d of inlet t e h God than had hewn In Ills hl urn lu I Ilie lie he was as In till the work url r of ur r rIng lag Ing r r it B II ft II III uc I tile At York limes HOles J |