Lincoln at Gettysburg: An AddressA. C. McClury, 1906 - 114 pages |
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ago our fathers army battle of Gettysburg battlefield burg Cemetery at Gettysburg Cemetery Hill Ceramicus Citizens coln conceived in liberty consecrated Curtin dead we take dedicated dedicatory exercises dedicatory remarks delivered EDWARD EVERETT ence Everett's address Everett's oration GALESBURG gave the last George G Gettys Gettysburg address GOVERNOR ANDREW G graves half-circle hallow this ground heard highly resolve honored dead Houses of Congress Illinois invited to speak Lamon last full measure LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG LINCOLN'S ADDRESS LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS little note long endure long remember Marshal Meade measure of devotion nation might live National Cemetery never forget Nicolay says nobly carried November o'clock a. m. occa Parthenon Peloponnesian war Pennsylvania Portrait power to add President Lincoln recollection score and seven Secretary Seward sion soldiers solemn speech sublime take increased devotion task remaining thought tion WARD H William L Winfield Scott world will little wounded
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Page 1 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 67 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 69 - 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 the cause for which they...
Page 28 - The train consisted of four passenger coaches, and, either composition or writing would have been extremely troublesome amid the movement, the noise, the conversation, the greetings, and the questionings which ordinary courtesy required him to undergo in these surroundings; but, still worse would have been the rockings and joltings of the train, rendering writing virtually impossible. Mr. Lincoln carried in his pocket the autograph manuscript of so much of his address as he had written at Washington...
Page 78 - I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
Page 62 - In the face of these facts it has been repeatedly published that this speech was received by the audience with loud demonstrations of approval; that "amid the tears, sobs, and cheers it produced in the excited throng, the orator of the day, Mr. Everett, turned to Mr. Lincoln, grasped his hand and exclaimed, 'I congratulate you on your success !' adding in a transport of heated enthusiasm, 'Ah, Mr. President, how gladly would I give my hundred pages to be the author of your twenty lines !' " Nothing...
Page 98 - THE UNITED STATES. Dirge, sung by Choir selected for the occasion. Benediction, by Rev. HL BAUGHER, DD After the benediction the procession will be dismissed, and the State Marshals and special aids to the Chief Marshal, will form on Baltimore street, and return to the court house in Gettysburg, where a meeting of the Marshals will be held. An appropriate salute will be fired in Gettysburg on the day of the celebration, under the direction of Major General COUCH.
Page 60 - It is not what I expected from him, I am disappointed.' Then in his turn Mr. Everett asked, ' What do you think of it, Mr. Seward ?' The response was, ' He has made a failure and I am sorry for it. His speech is not equal to him.
Page 96 - Pennsylvania citizens will form on Chambersburg Street, its right resting on the square ; and the other citizen delegations, in their order, will form on the same street, in rear of the Pennsylvania delegation. The Marshals of the States are charged with the duty of forming their several delegations so that they will assume their appropriate positions when the main procession moves.