The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ers business, to say nothing of his liability to be hinderedby curiosity-seekers, and other seekers, on the way thither. Just as we were going down the steps of the White House, thePresident suddenly remembered that he wanted a paper, and after 54r> THE STORY-LIFE OF LINCOLN hurrying back to his office, soon rejoined me with a long envelopein his hand. When we were fairly started, he said that the envelopeheld an advance copy of Edward Everetts address to be delivered at th
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ers business, to say nothing of his liability to be hinderedby curiosity-seekers, and other seekers, on the way thither. Just as we were going down the steps of the White House, thePresident suddenly remembered that he wanted a paper, and after 54r> THE STORY-LIFE OF LINCOLN hurrying back to his office, soon rejoined me with a long envelopein his hand. When we were fairly started, he said that the envelopeheld an advance copy of Edward Everetts address to be delivered at the Gettysburg dedication onthe following Thursday. Drawingit out, I saw that it was a one-pagesupplement to a Boston paper, andthat Mr. Everetts address nearlycovered both sides of the sheet. The President expressed hisadmiration for the thoughtfulnessof the Boston orator who had sentthis copy of this address in orderthat Mr. Lincoln might not trav-erse the same lines that the chosenspeaker of the great occasionmight have laid out for I exclaimed at its length,the President laughed and quotedthe EDWARD EVERETT Solid men of Boston, make no long orations, which he said he had met somewhere in a speech by Daniel said that there was no danger that he should get upon the linesof Mr. Everetts oration, for what he had ready to say was veryshort, or as he emphatically expressed it,— short, short, short! Inreply to a question as to the speech having been already written,he said it was written, but not finished. He had brought thepaper with him, he explained, hoping that a few minutes of leisurewhile waiting for the movements of the photographer and hisprocesses would give him a chance to look over the speech. Glimpses of Lincoln in War Time, Noah Brooks. The Century Magazine, Vol. XXVII, January,1895, page 465. On the Way to Gettysburg When Lincoln was on his way to the National Cemetery atGettysburg, an old gentleman told him that his only son fell onLit
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