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When Lincoln Spoke at Gettysburg
7/ Three Score and 15 Years Ago
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
• Western Newspaper Union.
T HREE score and fifteen
years ago a tall, gaunt,
sad-eyed man stood up
on a platform overlooking
the scene of one of the world’s
decisive battles and began to
speak. His voice was thin,
shrill, high-pitched in strik
ing contrast to the rich, full
tones of the trained orator
who had preceded him.
At first that previous speak
er had held his audience
spellbound with his elo
quence. * But as his speech
went on and on and on—for
an hour and 57 minutes, in
fact, people began to weary.
So it was something of a re
lief when he finished and
there was a certain revival
of interest when the next
speaker arose and drew him
self to his full height.
“Four score and seven
years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent a
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LINCOLN SPEAKING AT GETTYSBURG (From a contemporary drawing).
erty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created equal,” the shrill
voice proclaimed.
People leaned forward to lis
ten, for it was difficult for some of
them to hear. A minute passed
. . . two minutes . . . then:
“. . . That this nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of
freedom, and that government of
the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the
earth.”
With those words the speaker
sat down. His audience looked
at each other in amazement. Why,
he had stopped just when they
thought he was beginning! Who
ever heard of a man making such
a short speech!
They were right. For there
were exactly 272 words in that
speech.
t As he sat down there was but
very little applause and that was
apparently for the speaker, be
cause he was the President of
the United States, and not for the
words he had uttered. But in that
they were wrong. For the speech
to which they had just listened
was Abraham Lincoln’s Gettys
burg Address, that has been
called “a classic which will en
dure so long as the English lan
guage is spoken.”
A Disappointed Audience.
In the light of that statement
—with which few, if any, will dis
sent—it seems strange indeed
that the people who heard it ut
tered 75 years ago were so little
impressed by it. Yet such was
the case. Dr. William E. Barton
in his book, ‘‘Lincoln at Gettys
burg” (a 254-page book about a
272-word speech!) says:
* “People were disappointed.
After Everett’s oration, the Pres
ident’s speech seemed almost no
speech at all . . . That night they
told of hearing Everett and of
seeing the President. Inciden
tally some of them mentioned the
President had uttered a few re
marks; yes, they had heard the
President. But while they were
glad to have heard him, not many
of them at the time said very
much about the President’s
speech.
A “few remarks” indeed! Yet,
the people who heard him were
not the only ones who felt that
way about it. Another of Lin
coln’s biographers. Ward H. La-
mon, has recorded Lincoln’s own
dissatisfaction with his speech . ..
how he himself called it “a flat
failure” and added, after he re
turned to Washington, “I tell you,
that speech fell on the audience
like a wet blanket. I am dis
tressed about it. I ought to have
prepared it with more care.”
But he was wrong about that,
just as he was wrong when, in
the speech itself, he said “the
world will little note nor long re
member what we say here.” Per
haps the vforld “little noted” at
the time what he said there. But
certainly it seems destined to
“long remember.”
However, Lincoln wasn’t the
“world’s worst prophet” in this
respect. That title must go to the
editor of the Harrisburg (Pa.)
Patriot and Union who wrote an
editorial in which he said: “The
President succeeded on this occa
sion because he acted without
sense and without constraint in a
panorama that was gotten up
more for the benefit of his party
than for the glory of the nation
and the honor of the dead . . . We
pass over the silly remarks of
the President; for the credit of
the nation we are willing that the
veil of oblivion shall be dropped
over them and that they shall no
more be repeated or thought of.”
Of course, that was the fulmi-
nation of a bitterly partisan news
paper. But the Harrisburg editor
wasn’t alone in his attitude. For,
as Barton records, “The Chicago
Times and the Register in Lin
coln’s own home town of Spring-
field and other partisan newspa
pers were equally caustic and
equally unjust.”
Lincoln Overlooked.
One of the most interesting ex
amples of failure of the editors
to appreciate the speech was that
of the New York Times. The
following day it carried an edi
torial under the head “Two Great
Orations” which said: “We de
vote a broadside of this morn
ing’s Times to the publication of
two orations which we are sure
will command the attention of
*he day.” It then went on to dis
cuss the beauty of language and
the eloquent voices of “two mas
ters of oratory.” One of these
was Edward Everett, who had
spoken at the dedication of the
National cemetery at Gettysburg.
The other was NOT Abraham
Lincoln at the same ceremony.
It was Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er, who had just returned from
England and on the evening of
the day before had addressed a
great crowd at the Academy of
Music in his home city of Brook
lyn.
To the credit of Edward Ever
ett, however, let it be said that he
was one of the few—possibly the
only one—who recognized the
greatness of Lincoln’s speech at
the time. He wrote to Lincoln the
next day: “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.”
Tributes From England.
But if the greatness of the Get
tysburg speech was not appreci
ated at the time it was uttered,
recognition was not long in com
ing. Nor has that recognition
been confined to his fellow-coun
trymen. It was Lord Charmwood
of England who characterized the
speech as “a classic which will
endure as long as the English
language is spoken.” And an
other Englishman, Lord Curzon,
in a lecture at the University of
Cambridge paid it this tribute:
“I escape the task of deciding
which is the masterpiece of mod
em English eloquence by award
ing the prize to an American. The
Gettysburg Address is far more
than a pleasing piece of occa
sional oratory. It is a marvel
ous piece of English composition.
It is a pure well of English un
defiled. Lincoln’s words are
among the glories and treasures
of mankind.”
EDWARD EVERETT
If the Gettysburg Address
helped make Lincoln immortal,
it is one of the ironies of fate that
it also helped thrust into obscu
rity Edward Everett, the man
who had been cast in the role of
“chief orator” at the dedication
of the battlefield, so that he is
now something of a “forgotten
man” and he lives in memory
mainly as “the other man who
spoke at Gettysburg.”
Everett was bom in Dorchester,
Mass., April 11, 1794, a member
of one of the leading families of
New England. After several years
of travel in Germany and Eng
land he returned to this country
to occupy the chair of Greek lit
erature at Harvard and to be
come editor of the North Ameri
can Review. One of the earliest
examples of the “scholar in poli
tics,” Everett became successive
ly congressman, governor of Mas
sachusetts, minister plenipoten
tiary to England and, after a
brief interim as president of Har
vard, secretary of state in Presi
dent Fillmore’s cabinet.
But his chief claim to fame lies
in his being a vigorous champion
of American institutions when it
was the fashion in Europe to
sneer at our democracy, and an
equally vigorous champion of
honesty in public affairs and of
-social justice. He was a resolute
opponent of white occupation of
Indian lands without the consent
of the red man. To him also was
due the preservation of a sound
currency in the panic of 1837 and
the establishment of the first
board of education in the United
States. No mean record of ac
complishment, this, and to it
should be added the fact that he
was considered the greatest ora
tor in the country at that time.
He had staked out his claim to
that distinction early in life. In
1824, while he was teaching at
Harvard, he was chosen to ad
dress the Phi Beta Kappa society
at Cambridge on the progress of
literature in the United States.
Tribute to Lafayette.
Everyone expected him to de
liver the usual scholarly address
for scholarly men. But one cir-
cumstance helped change that.
In the audience was Marquis de
Lafayette, now an old man, who
had come back to America to
receive the tribute of the people
for whose liberties he had fought
nearly a half century earlier.
Near the end of Everett’s
speech, he turned to the old sol
dier and launched into a tribute
to him with such fervor and elo
quence that his audience was held
spellbound, silent, for several
minutes. Then it burst into a
roar of handclapping and cheer
ing. Everett had said what every
American felt in his heart about
Lafayette and he had done it so
graciously and expressively that
his speech became the sensation
of the hour, not only in this coun
try but in France as well.
Helped Save Mt. Vernon.
In 1853 he used his eloquence
in a cause which helped spread
his fame. He became interested
in the effort to raise $200,000 to
purchase Mount Vernon and pre
serve it as a national shrine. He
prepared an address on the char
acter of Washington and deliv
ered this address more than 120
times in various cities all over
the country. People came from
afar to hear him—not because
there was anything new in what
he had to tell them about the Fa
ther of His Country but because
of the grace and style of the ora
tor’s presentation of his subject.
As a result Everett turned over
to the women who were trying to
save Mount Vernon nearly $70,000
and did more, perhaps, than any
other individual in accomplish
ing their purpose.
Early in the Civil war he began
delivering speeches to arouse en
thusiasm for the Northern cause.
They were not finished orations—
they were stirring calls to action.
He became the most powerful
platform orator of his day. So it
was only natural that those in
charge of the dedication of the
National cemetery at Gettysburg
should have thought of him first
when selecting an orator for the
occasion.
His long and distinguished ca
reer came to an end January 15,
1865—three months too early to
see the triumph of the cause
which he had so ably championed
DAIRY BARNS CAN
CONTROL DISEASE
Mangers and the Platforms
Should Be Kept Clean.
By Dr. George E. Taylor, Extension Dairy
man, Rutgera University—WNU Service.
The proper type and construction
of the manger and standing plat
form in the dairy barn is impor
tant from the standpoint of control
ling tuberculosis, Bang’s disease,
mastitis and other diseases affect
ing dairy cattle.
The manger and standing plat
form should be constructed of ce
ment or some similar impervious
material which is easily cleaned and
disinfected when necessary. The
manger should be equipped with
individual drinking cups and solid
manger partitions between each
cow. The feeding manger should
be separated from the feed alley-
way by means of a front manger
curb high enough to prevent litter
from the alleyway getting into the
manger proper.
The organisms causing Bang’s
disease and also tuberculosis gain
entrance to the body principally
through the mouth and digestive
system. Anything that will prevent
or partially eliminate the chances
of the animals consuming infected
feed or water will be a great aid in
controlling the spread. The spread
of % tuberculosis is usually greater in
herds that are watered by means of
common drinking tanks. Watering
animals by means of flooding the
manger several times daily is an
excellent way of spreading disease
in an infected herd. Likewise, feed
and litter in the feed alley is apt
to become contaminated from the
shoes of the herdsman or caretaker
in the daily routine of feeding and
milking infected herds. A manger
curb will help eliminate the chances
of infected grain and hay being
swept back into the manger.
The standing platform should be
wide enough and long enough to
prevent udder injury. Udder injury
of any nature should be regarded as
a predisposing factor to mastitis.
A solid platform curb six or eight
inches high, extending from the
manger back to the gutter between
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shifting of infected bedding from
one stall to another. The organ
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to the udder through the teat ca
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tends to eliminate the possibilities
of the udder coming in contact with
the causative organisms of mastitis
will aid in the control of the spread
in a herd.
Profit in Good Finish
Is Cited by Poultrymen
Every poultry producer should
market a large proportion of his
surplus stock at between three and
five pounds dressed weight, well fat
tened, contend the Eastern Ontario
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that the greatest profit in dressed
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touches.
A thin bird is hard to sell at any
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Finishing for top grades takes only
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Pool officials suggest that breeders
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sifted out. This is mixed with but
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consistency of porridge. Feed twice
daily during the fattening period,
lightly for the first day or so, and
then all the birds will clean up.
A few boiled potatoes make a
good addition, state experts; also, 5
per cent mutton fat.
Farm Topics
Most of the eggs are laid early in
the morning, the time varying with
the seasons, or more properly with
the length of the day.
* • *
A cantaloupe picked when it is
ripe has a clean stem scar with no
stem attached.
* • •
Cannabalism among chicks is
largely caused by lack of something
to do, by overcrowding houses or by
hunger.
• • •
Successful sterilization and preser
vation of milk for indefinite periods
is announced by a Wisconsin firm.
• • •
Good layers have broad, deep,
short heads and beaks; bright,
prominent eyes; straight backs and
wide spring of ribs, with deep bod
ies.
• • •
Wheat is about equal to corn and
barley in feeding value for dairy
cows, although it is somewhat high
er in protein.
• • •
Every man, woman, and child in
Canada eats 31% pounds of butter a
year—or more than a half-pound a
week.
• • •
When tomatoes are firm and have
not started to decay, they may be
stored as long as 20 days without
losing very much vitamin C, food
authorities say.
Free-Hand Embroidery
Design Is Fun to Do
Here is another free-hand em
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This attractive border is suggest
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If the jacket is pale pink, the
rows of running stitches might be
in several tones of rose. The cross
stitches could be in deep rose and
turquoise blue to simulate flow
ers. The long and short stitches,
shown at A and B, should then
be done in apple green. Lines
may be drawn with a ruler as a
guide to keep the rows straight,
and evenly spaced dots may be
made to indicate the cross stitches
beginning the spacing at the cor
ners of the design.
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Even if other remedies have failed,
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