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Show Few Recognised Beauty of Gettysburg Address When the speakers were being chos- en to make addresses at Gettysburg In 1SG3, President Lincoln was an afterthought after-thought and then a dubious chairman begged him to make his speech as short as possible! It Is generally believed that Lincoln Lin-coln wrote the Gettysburg address on a piece of brown paper, on the way to Gettysburg. But this is not true, according ac-cording to the Golden Book Magazine. Two days before the dedication at Gettysburg, President Lincoln had the speech almost all written and In his hat (where he usually kept valuable papers). "The silence during the delivery of the speech, and the lack of hearty demonstration at its close," said Ward Hill Lamon, describing the event, "were taken by Mr. Lincoln as cer- |