Show Hearers I Cold to Great Oration Writing In the Indianapolis News a 3 afew few years ago ogo Mr Air A i B IL Farquhar who was nn an eyewitness thus recalled President Lincoln's delivery cry of I the he immortal Gettysburg address After having breakfasted and talked with and friends whom we met I 1 walked around to the house of Mr Wills In order to see sec the President dent come forth As he lie came out I 1 spoke to him he recognized me and ond shook me by the hand he mounted his bis horse to join jolo the procession sion blon It was about el eleven en o'clock when the party reached the lie platform plat plat- platform form but Mr Everett the orator of the day y ns as as fully half hair nn an hour late Inte and It was nearly noon nonn before he be- be began be began gan his Ills address Mr Ir Everett E had twin had an engaging ng personality an un Intellectual ual nod relined refined face and an attractive e ap- ap appearance ap appearance and his a address dress which he read from the manuscript which he held In his Its hand wis wn elo plo eloquent quent but Lilt it was too long probably long no an hour and a half In len length lh Tired of Everetts Everett's Speech The art urt of oratory was much more extensively practiced then than It is In Inthis inthis this da day and Mr 1 erelt was wis one of the foremost orators of or the time but the audience was weary wenry before he had finished I 1 was anxious for him to conclude In order that we might hear henr the President I 1 observed Mr Ir closely lie Ill Ie listened ly thy to Mr II Everetts Everett's I Speech but It appeared to tome tome me are that It began nn to w weary nr him and his face assumed an un expression expression of care and sadness his Ills mind evidently preoccupied wit with h a lolls nn t thoughts ts A small rustle rustic plat platform rom hall had been heen erected for llie speakers tile site Sill of which Is now nw occupied 11 hy by the lie monument ment upon which Is engraved d fn rl t the h Im ln Immortal mortal words were there Spoken spoken en n A At t the of I Everetts nIl nd dress the President slowly 10 1 rose stepped forward and In n a strong ole occasionally glancing at nt a n paper h he held In hIs Ills hand spoke sloke the fol following lowing wOld Four wore score and seven je years fars a ago o our fathers brought forth on this till ant men rr a III new W nation conceived pd In liberty anti dedicated ted to the thai thal t ha I II all allmen allmen II men Un are url created equal For For Us the Living Now ow we e ore engaged In n 1 great Int Ch II win war testing whether that na nation than tion or fir any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long Ions lon endure endur WE lire are lip stet met on nn n gl great battle Orld of ot that war Ve We have hn come to dedicate n 0 portion of that field held as a n fin rl resting plaCe for those who here gave e their lives that that nation might live e It ItI Itis ItIs I is altogether ther fitting Otting and proper that we should do this Rut nut In a 8 larger sense we cannot dedicate we e cannot consecrate we cannot hollow hallow this ground The brave bra men Using living and dead who struggled here have ha consecrated It far above e our poor loor power to n add dd or detract The fhe world I will III tie note nor lon long remember her ber we say here herc but hut It ft will nen never r for forget t what hat they y did here It s rather for us m the Hi 11 living In Ing to he here dedicated to the unfinished work worl which they who ho fought there here have ho e thus fa far r so noLI nobly advanced It Is rather for us to be here liere dedicated to the he great tusk task remaining before that us-that us that from these honored dead we I take uke Increased devotion de to that cause couse for which the they gave the last full measure of devo o devotion that lion tion that we here highly resolve resol-e that these dead shall not have ha died lied In that vain that this nation nallon under God Cod shall have a new lIew birth of freedom freedom- freedom and ond that hat government of the p people ople by y tile the people for the people shall not perish from the earth These n as I 1 remember and them thorn and t I have always nl had an exceedingly good word were memory memory were the exact words used hy by Lincoln though the newspaper ne reports varied sll slightly from the test tl r its liS here given 1 ln The version erslon revised re lIy by himself elf also varies aries from this of Mr Ir Farquhar's Fa nil bars bar's The Hushed Applause There was as some applause during the delivery of the lie address but less at Its conclusion than one would have ex- ex ex expected I 1 can only speak for myself when I say suy that I 1 was as too deeply deply ln- ln Im Impressed pressed pressed-as pressed as though I 1 had hind listened to a great greut sermon to sermon to join In the applause I fancy many litany felt the lie same way One had the llie h feeling that It wag wa In 10 fact a solemn benediction to tile the lie unfinished Work worl which would load lead whither we knew not hut not hut hint though the way might lie hp Ion tong long and hard yet under th the In Inspired leadership of ot Abraham Lincoln there could lie he hut butt one out out- outcome outcome come tile the successful conclusion of the war anti ami a D reunited nation The rile Presidents President's countenance e which had become It during the de de- de- de delivery delivery livery Iry of the lie address resumed Its look 1001 of nC sadness sadiK-s 8 as ns though h he hI were disappointed disappointed disappointed pointed at the reception of ot his nis words ll It Is undoubtedly true lint his Ills hear henr- hearers hearers ers did not appreciate It until th they y hn had u a chance to 10 read rend the address and ponder Its meaning A newspaper ler In the neighboring city of II a Lulled filled to pUblish pui the Ir address remarking that h he hall had no noo risen to the occasion hail made malle a n few fw rambling tad remarks remarks even fn the lie New York Tribune either I through b accident or design It from Its account of the dedication I Mr Greeley whom wham I t afterward mN met metat metat ot at an nn agricultural cultural fair at 1 Elkton Md Miland and to whore I 1 showed the West tYest- Westminster minster Review ne article nodded hIs I head hend and admitted that the Tribune hUll had not grasped the significance of the I speech i I |