Show few recognized beauty of gettysburg address when the speakers were being chosen to make addresses at gettysburg in 1803 president lincoln was an afterthought and then a dubious chairman begged him to make his bis speech as short ns as possible I 1 lt it Is generally believed that lincoln co in wrote the gettysburg address on a piece of brown paper on the way to gettysburg but this Is not true according to the golden book magazine two days daya before the dedication at gettysburg president lincoln bad the speech almost all written and to la his bis hat but where he be usually kept valuable papers the silence during the delivery of the speech and the lack of hearty demonstration at its close said ward lamon describing the event were taken by mr lincoln as tain proof that it had not been well received in that opinion we all shared mr lincoln said to me lamo anmon that speech wont schurl scour I 1 its a flat failure and the people are disappointed it occurred to only it a few who heard it that it was an immortal address |