. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address : the aftermath. ***>/^trft^r£#5G fir* frgou&a 0\Mtnt J!nez& i-J~fie*r fc&j* eCceV *Ke*Xi, t£&/j^rmS. U**Uf &4xVt ffajOb/KoImO C* (*£**? J0*fCe tfj/Zwt JihrvrhS*, /f, M$, ^rfo*JUtw 4*utr&, ^TSS^^t^T^at Gettysbur8 ~cmr J By ELMO SCOTT WATSONHKEE score and seven years ago atall, gaunt American stood upon aplatform overlooking a battlefieldand in a high-pitched, thin voice de-livered a speech of exactly 272words. The day was November 19,1863; the man was Abraham Lincoln;the place was Gettysburg, Pa; andthe speech was the GettysburgAddress. One result of that spee

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. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address : the aftermath. ***>/^trft^r£#5G fir* frgou&a 0\Mtnt J!nez& i-J~fie*r fc&j* eCceV *Ke*Xi, t£&/j^rmS. U**Uf &4xVt ffajOb/KoImO C* (*£**? J0*fCe tfj/Zwt JihrvrhS*, /f, M$, ^rfo*JUtw 4*utr&, ^TSS^^t^T^at Gettysbur8 ~cmr J By ELMO SCOTT WATSONHKEE score and seven years ago atall, gaunt American stood upon aplatform overlooking a battlefieldand in a high-pitched, thin voice de-livered a speech of exactly 272words. The day was November 19,1863; the man was Abraham Lincoln;the place was Gettysburg, Pa; andthe speech was the GettysburgAddress. One result of that speech was todetermine the man who undoubtedlymay fairly be called the worldsworst prophet. His name is forgotten,if it was ever known, but he was theeditorial writer on the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriotand Union who said of the speech: The Presi-dent succeeded on this occasion because he actedwithout sense and without constraint in a: pano-rama that was gotten up more for the benefit ofhis party than for the glory of the nation andthe honor of the dead. . We pass over thesilly remarks of the President; for the credit ofthelincolxxxxx00linc

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