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Show WAS WITH LINCOLN John Hay Tells of Trip to Gettysburg, Gettys-burg, Where Immortal Address Ad-dress Was Made. AMONG the IntereRting passages in John Hay's war time diary, printed in Harper's Magazine, is Hay's vivid account of the president's visit to Gettysburg and the delivery of the famous Gettysburg address. " 'On our train were the president, Seward, Usher and Blair; Nicolay and myself; Mercier and Admiral Raynaud; Ray-naud; Bertlnattl and Captain Isola, and Lieutenant Martinez; Cora and Mrs. Wise; Wayne MacVeagh; Mc-Dougal Mc-Dougal of Canada, and one or two others. We had a pleasant sort of a trip. At Baltimore Schenck's staff Joined us. " 'At Gettysburg the president went to Mr. Wills', who expected him, and our party broke like a drop of quicksilver quick-silver spilled. MacVeagh, young Stanton Stan-ton and I foraged around for a while walked out to the college, got a chafing chaf-ing dish of oysters, then some supper, and, finally, loafing around to the court house, where Lamon was holding hold-ing a meeting of marshals, we found Forney, and went around to his place, Mr. Fahnestock'3, and drank a little whisky with him. He had been drink- , P i , J ? L , ill Abraham Lincoln. ing a good deal during the day and was getting to feel a little ugly. " 'We went out after a while, following fol-lowing the music to hear the serenades. sere-nades. The president appeared at the door, Baid half a dozen words meaning mean-ing nothing, and went In. Seward, who was staying around the corner at Harper's, was called out, and spoke bo Indistinctly that I did not hear a word of what he was saying. Forney and MacVeagh were Btill growling about Blair. We went back to Forney's For-ney's room, having, picked up Nicolay, and drank more whisky. Nicolay sang his little song of the "Three Thieves," and we then sang "John Brown." At last we proposed that Forney should make a speech, and two or three started start-ed out ... to get a band to serenade sere-nade him. I stayed with him; so did Stanton and MacVeagh. He Btill growled, quietly,- and I . thought: he was going to do something imprudent.' "Then follows an account of the serenade and of the bibulous Forney's speech, in which In tipsy fashion he mingled drollery and gravity. Quite Shakespearean in this low-comedy interlude, in-terlude, coming just before the stately state-ly scene of consecration. " 'In the morning (of the 19th, Hay continues) 1 got a beast and rode out with the president and suite to the cemetery In the procession. The procession pro-cession formed itself in an orphanly sort -of way and moved out with very little help from anybody; and after a little delay Mr. Everett took his place on the stand, and Mr. Stockton made a prayer which thought it was an oration; and Mr. Everett spoke as he always does, perfectly; and the president, presi-dent, In a firm, free way, with more grace than is his wont, said his half- dozen lines of consecration: " ' "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent con-tinent a new nation, conceived in liberty lib-erty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. " ' "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, . or any nation so conceived and bo dedicated, can long endure. "We are met on a great battlefield battle-field 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 altogether fitting and proper prop-er that we should do this. But. in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. "Th3 brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. " ' "The world will little 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 so far nobly advanced. " ' "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." ' " |