FAC-SIMILE

OF THE

GETTYSBURG CEMETERY SPEECH,

AS COPIED OUT FOR ENGRAVING,

BY THE

PRESIDENT, AFTER ITS DELIVERY.

Address delivereds at the dedication of the bemetery at Gettysbing.

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and dedicated

to the propositions that all men are creo ated equal.

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Abraham Lincoln,

November

19. 1863.

FAC-SIMILE

OF THE

GETTYSBURG CEMETERY SPEECH,

AS COPIED OUT FOR ENGRAVING,

BY THE

PRESIDENT, AFTER ITS DELIVERY.

Address delivered at the stedication of the bemetery at Gettysling.

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and dedicated

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do this,

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never

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great task remaining before us__ that from these honoree dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the fast full measure of devotion_that here highly resolve that these dead shall (now have dew in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of frees prom and that goverment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not pers ish from the earth.

Normoter 19. 1863,

Abraham Lincolns.

1

CHAPTER L.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

Keeping Good Workmen-Absence of Favoritism-A Political Revolution -A National Prayer-Meeting-The Coming General-Helpless intrigues.

It would be fair to describe Mr. Lincoln's management of the long list of military commanders under his direction as a persistent effort by him to put each man, as nearly as might be, in the place for which he was best fitted and wherein he could perform the most effective service.

If, having appointed any man to an especial duty, he found him insufficient for it, he was quite willing to transfer him to another. If a strong man's usefulness were impaired or destroyed by local or transitory causes, no undue or continuing weight was ever assigned to these.

Fine illustrations of this rare element in the President's capacity as a ruler are furnished by the records of Generals Burnside and Hooker, after each in turn had ceased to command the Army of the Potomac. Neither Fredericksburg nor Chancellorsville was permitted to deprive the country of valuable services. There was no sort of quarrel between either of them and the Commander-in-Chief, and they went on, in new fields and with other armies, to prove the soundness of his judgment concerning them.

The watchfulness required for the exercise of such a judgment was all but sleepless, and called for the constant study of circumstances as well as of men and of apparent results. Mr. Lincoln's hours of hard-won solitude were a perpetual "court of inquiry." He followed every movement of every army