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mer looking a battlefield and in ili it 11 high thin iliin voice lie de Ilie ill t reil a ot of exactly the dai wis was 19 1863 lt i hie file man hiis lincoln the alic lne was pa ia all and ile ee it IMIS its hie file gettysburg A address 1 I d ress one result of that saleed was to determine file mail ho undoubtedly may fairly tic lie called hip flip norles fiirst orsi ini liel liet I 1 ills I 1 Is naine Is forgot for colten ten if li it was ever knon lul but he was the editorial writer ou on file I 1 lie in flat patriot Int riot art baid union M lio ijo said of HIP flip tile faresi dont on oil this occasion because lie acted without sense and without constraint in it pano ano hatim that was gotten tit up more for hie file benefit of b lil f sparty than for the lie glory of the nation and the lie lionor honor of the lend dead we pass over the silly remarks of the lie president for the credit of we lire are willing that tile lie veil of oblivion shall ile be dropped over oer them an and that they shall ni mi more be repeated or thought of fifty years later lord curzon of england Hn eland in a lecture at a the Un hersity of cambridge said 1 I escape the task frisk of deciding deddens which is the masterpiece ot of modern english eloquence by awarding the prize to an american the rhe gettysburg address Is for far more than a pleasing piece of occa slon 11 ll oratory it is a marvelous piece of english composition it Is a pure well veil of Eri glish undefiled life ills fire are among the glories and 4 treasures of if mankind and another Engli bliman lord charnwood once rated it as a classic which will ill endure as long as the english kni language Is spoken and hose estimates of the gettysburg address the ultimate in praise though they m may ay seem to be are modest indeed compared to other eul eulogies ogles uttered in praise of the words which lincoln uttered which have run through the whole scale of superlatives but tor for all the extravagant praise which has been lavished upon the gettysburg address since it ft was delivered 67 years ago there remained one final gesture of appreciation and now that gesture has been made this year witnessed the hitherto unheard of fact of a ara 2 M page book being devoted exclusively to a word speech I 1 the book Is lincoln at gettysburg written by the roost most prolific lic fic of contemporary lincoln scholars dr william E S barton and published by the bobbs company declaring that the evidence Is practically 8 all 11 in we are now able to assemble it fill all to select all that appears to be significant and to tell the whole story of lin coins coans speech at gettysburg doctor barton has said what appears to be the last word about a historic event and a historic document quite aside from the imp importance orance of the gettysburg speech as nn an imperishable treasure of english literature the doctor barton tells it in his book atory of it as interest especially in the way Is one of absorbing in which it illustrates out of what materials material history may he made for around this historic document there clings nn all mass of 0 misinformation under circumstances cum stances which add to tile the uniqueness of the address the address Add rots was one of events in Lincol ns entire tile most conspicuous career writes doctor barton in his fits foreword to heard by many thousands of the volume it was 3 people it ans it deport rl in all the in alf s it would seeto ahat it papers of if tile hie country hill tie he sid to relate refute lust just botilda he be very easy mid how hov be said ald it and all easl blat should be 7 zv of rerun record about it and yet there prevails a very able about nearly aery deball del ail of I 1 that hut it 11 vano small feat fur for dueler doctor barton I 1 arton to tie nc com to re condle tilt all these anil and to ole an in ne comit of nf flip events 0 f dial day which probably contes comes ns as close to the truth as can eer ile he lne done linin lincoln had desired to go to gettysburg ever since the t lie battle because lien ilise he believed unit that meade had failed to in take of nf nn an opportunity to crush lee iee an and end the war then tilt aind there and lip lio wanted to see if ills belief was correct then too a political qu quarrel irrel between Ite publIcan leaders in might he healed hy by a visit to that state froin llie file president lie he had not heen ro to in attend allend the ceremonies which were arranged for the file dedication of the ain eino arr vr chere lie did not receive the file written invitation aich which was sent to rdward edward Ee terell rett nho had find been chosen as the file orator for the occasion and to others ills his only invitation was a printed primed circular sent out generally and alien mr wills informed his fellow of mr Lincol ns acceptance that group was ery greatly surprised rind and they cannot be said to have heen been overjoyed so their decision to ask lincoln to set apart formally these grounds to their sacred use hy by a few appropriate remarks lifter the oration was in an afterthought lincoln evidently gave some thought as to what he would say from tile the time he accepted the invitation fo for r ideas and expressions that were to be found in ills his address appear in vague form in his fourth of july speech of that year lie he wrote a part of his first draft some time before tie he went to gettysburg and finished it that night tit at the home of mr air wills ue carried it over to mr air before lie he retired and copied it in ID the morning to serve as the manuscript which he held in his fits land hand while speaking in the parade to the cemetery lincoln was dressed in black wore it a tall hat and white gaunt lets lie ie was as mounted on a horse and at first he sat erect but as the procession moved on his body moved forward ills his arms hung limp and his head was bent the appearance of tile tie president of the united states in this procession was waa scarcely one which could be called dist distinguished Ingui shed I 1 nor was his appearance while making the speech one which lm impressed pressed the crowd greatly edward everett had studied his speech carefully and was prepared to make the oratorical effort of his lifetime ile he was the ideal american orator commanding in appearance precise IV in utterance and having a rare gift of eloquence eloquence in the terms of the wordy forensics in which the people of that time seemed to find delight for an hour and 52 59 minutes the crowd listened to the flow ing sentences of everett pulsating like tile the endless tides of the sea there to 18 no doubt that his audience was much impressed there Is no doubt also that it was worn out nut with lits his long so lincoln arose to speak his hi hearers were daily receptive lincoln started tits his speech in a dign pitched voice which lie ha always used to make people hear the impression sion on ills bis audience Is well described by one of those who heard him film quoted in doctor bartons hok S S warner of ohio tells of ills hla surprise at Lincol ns kentuckian intonation 1 I 1 especially the long lona 0 o in n his fits preposition lm io ile he sold toe tile pro proposition post we have flave come ice fee dedicate a portion of that field MY mr aptt fooling feeling was one of complete surprise c ut hla his li 11 deplot d to ole me rind I 1 think to tile the audience generally that lie hal just begun beglin I 1 st pay eay hint ht he lopard lopp rd bafo lipford p lils ills audience was wag in full fuli walh w alth film li ir fore alir v had got I 1 ast noting not ipg g he ie little 1 kiili I ties 1 in bess man amiee ir not after I 1 hid frill beg epplin arf in n spent fit lil 1 air tal ul abt vt or of uie the keople b 1 vl e eq fiig fai the people eople ii shall not perish from elie earth As he h sat down there vias but very little applause and that was apparently for the president and not for the words lie he lind had uttered people were ere disappointed says doctor barton after everetts oration the hie presidents speech seemed almost no lit all rill nil that night they told of henrine hearing everett rind of seeing the president im fill dell lally some of them mentioned that the president dont imd lind alt uttered ered a few remarks yes they had heard tile the president but while they hey were glad to hae ue heard film not many of then them it at tile the time little said very about the presidents speech lamon hns has rescinded recin ded that lincoln called the a 1 lint flat failure and added lifter lie returned to washington 1 I 1 tell fell you that speech fell on file audience like a el blanket I 1 am ain its about it I 1 ought to lime hae prepared it with will more clire care nor did the speech make much more impresa slon upon tile hie country ns a n whole than it did upon those who heard it only one or two newspapers pronounced it good and most papers ignored it rell relict eling I 1 iiii soine somewhat haf the elie attitude altitude of if tile lie li harrisburg Ili tilot and union it remained for a later generation to appreciate the gre greatness of its sim city A few s siw tw its merits early and the con knit il lations of if everett and the request that a manuscript copy he be hound bound ills fits and sold at the new york sanitary fair set lincoln nt at the task of putting it in the form in which lie wished lie he had find delivered it in all live five new copies were made for different pu purposes poses rind slight changes brought the file address into the final form forin in which it Is now known to the world words of which 20 are of seven or less letters and of a single s liable and of anglo saxon derivation in comparing the wording in the different coples copies doctor barton has discovered thill that lincoln omitted tile the word poor in our poor power when he spoke also omitted it in his second colay and wrote it in above tile line the phrase of the people by the people and for the people was used by theodore parker in speeches in boston which lincoln read in springfield and which chic he underlined it also occurs with slight cat ions in websters reply to hayne 1810 which lincoln studied in preparation for his first inaugural the phrase under god seems to have been put into the text by lincoln as he spoke for it does not occur in the two rough drafts made before his speech in which he said we here highly resolve that the nation shall have a new ill birth rth of fri freedom edom doctor barton has traced this direct to Lincol ns earlier reading his stock of phraseology the phrase under god even in association with nation Is used by none other than parson weems arid by no one else that lincoln read lincoln read weems washington as a boy took him seriously and digested the book thoroughly in the final manuscript owned by W J A bliss there Is no and in the famous conclusion of the people by the people for the people this draft in the words ot of doctor barton Is what lincoln wished lie he had said ills actual words were slightly different but so confused are sortie some of of the authorities that durar durics i the coolidge administration an organization left a tablet with the gettysburg address on it at the white 11 house louse it contained says doctor barton only 28 e errors rr r in some respects lincoln shores shares with the har editorial writer in being a very poor prophet for as doctor barton has observed 4 abraham braham lincoln said nl at gettysburg the world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here lie was never more mistaken in all his life the men who ho fought on that red field did more than they knew lethey were fighting more than they understood after they had won the victory they did more even than lincoln realized four months later as he stood on the spot and paid tribute to their sacrifice but memorable as were the deeds they wrought there the world will longer re remember the words lie spoke there tile ali gettysburg address will be printed arid and recited and translated and cast in durable bronze oil after it shall have become ary to append footnotes fontno tea to explain that get boig wis neither n brittle in the ile revolutionary ary vin im tor i nr jr ii bield somewhere here amid the copples of 0 bindery tc c by wistern li |
