Nor Long Remember (1941)

Thea [Music] Christa Glory you and he di toy free God is glor Glory hallelu Glory Glory Hallelujah Glory Glory Hallelujah his truth ising myen the glory of theing of the Lord he is tring out the vage where The Grapes of WRA are stor he has Lo the faithful light Tru is glor Glory Hallelujah Glory Glory Hallelujah [Laughter] they a fool out of his likely just like he did at antium last fall maybe he told some stories or made Layman sing some more rough songs over the graves of the soldiers Lincoln all I ever hear is Lincoln but it isn't true about antium I can hardly imagine the president mlen was there wasn't he and if Lincoln didn't do what everybody said he did wouldn't mlon have denied it look every paper said that Lincoln was going to make a stump speech at the cemetery when Phil would come with that mail and them papers Lincoln shouldn't have gone anyway nobody wanted him says right here he was just sent one of them printed circulars CH good one of them myself and there wasn't much more than a week ago and they asked him to speak that do most likely couldn't have the president there and not call on him to say something well Chase didn't go or Stanton and general me wasn't there either he said the Army needed him way I figure it out is this Lincoln hasn't got a chance to be reelected and he knows it Chase wants to be president he wasn't going to gettis spurg be the tail to a kite won't get off the ground me didn't go because the president wasn't going to be there he's still hot under the collar on account of what president wrote him for letting Lee get away across the pomac after the battle there a lot of people who think the president was right the war might have been ended back there in July if me had followed leave from gettsburg the pomac was flooded and me could have captured his whole Army instead of allowing him 11 days to escape and then claiming he had driven The Invader from our soil the president was angry and properly I think if we're fighting to preserve the union then the whole country is our soil anyway it was me who won the battle wasn't it and what right did Lincoln have to say that if he gone up there he could have wh Lee himself that's right first he wants to be a general and fight all the battles and then he went to Gettysburg like I said to make a fool out of himself if there's a wedding linoln wants to be the blind if there's a funeral he wants to be the court this man Everett is a old raater from what I hear and mark my words he must have made Lincoln look as worthless as a rebel Shin plaster it's hardly fair to expect Lincoln to have competed with Edward ett ett was the orator of the day while Lincoln so the papers say was just to give a few dedicatory remarks aick is a great scholar he's a noted Boston Minister he's been president of Harvard governor of Massachusetts United States Senator yes an ambassador to England and Secretary of State Lincoln taught himself darn poor teacher I'd say I've never said Lincoln was a great man maybe he isn't but he's come a long way by the light of a pine knot with a shingle for a Blackboard charcoal for a pencil and a jack knife for an eraser he taught himself to read and write and figure and now he's president but he won't be long he's dead as a in a pit listen to this fad Stevens Republican floor leader in Congress when advised of the president's decision to speak at gettsburg Cemetery said the dead is going to eulogize the dead that's it the dead going to bury the dead here's Phil now slaugh my lasses hold your shirt on you ain't even got the kettle on folks will be coming for their letters before you get a chance to read them let me have Ed Small's New York Times met Phil steel down at the Depot this morning getting the train back to Washington he was there said it wasn't much of a speech ought to say here exactly what happened all it says is President Lincoln made a few remarks upon the occasion all ever spoke bill says for an hour and 57 minutes one of the greatest orations he ever heard he's heard plenty of them in Congress then Lincoln spoke before anyone knew what he was through Bill saw one of them 40 graer fell setting up his Contraption and before he could get his head under that Shaw or whatever it is Lincoln had finished just like that didn't even get a picture of the president making the [Laughter] speech told you he'd make a fool out of himself we pass over the silly remarks of the president for the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of OB o b l i v i o n Oblivion I know you don't have to tell me I'm willing that the veil of Oblivion shall drop over them and they shall be no more repeated or thought of what paper is that Harrisburg Patriot Union right nearby it seems though they ought to know what they're talking about a New York tribut here says the ceremony was rendered ludicrous by some of the SES of that pool President Lincoln anything more dull and commonplace it would not be easy to produce I suppose that'll be printed in England now and get them britishers laughing at us guess that speech drove the last nail in Old ab's political cofen even Fletcher ain't got much to say now no but I'm thinking what to thinking of great speech of your Mr Lincoln 4 score and7 years maybe sounds better to a school teacher than 87 years ago no but here's a paper the Chicago Tribune they had a reporter there and he wired this the dedicatory remarks of President Lincoln will live forever in the annals of men I care just what happened will you read it to us Mr Brown the president arrived by special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad get down to it never mind let's hear the speech an amusing incident occurred when one of the military band stopped to play in front of the home of Mr Wills where Lincoln was staying thinking he was being serenad the president came out and acknowledged the compliment but declined to make a speech he said in my position it is sometimes important that I should not say foolish things he can't help saying them go on Mr Brown the band went next door where secretary Seward responded with a graceful speech the following morning the procession moved shortly after 10:00 from Gettysburg to the cemetery in charge of Marshall Ward Hill Layman there were were several bands including the second United States artillery band of Baltimore President Lincoln rode a horse which seemed much too small for him and his appearance caused considerable Amusement when the procession reached the cemetery there was another delay as Edward Everett the orator of the day was over a half hour late in arriving after music by the band Senator Everett delivered a notable address which we are pleased to quote here with standing beneath this Serene Sky overlooking these broad Fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year the mighty alagan dimly towering before us the graves of our Brethren beneath our feet it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent Silence of God and nature beautiful speech man but it takes up seven columns although he spoke for nearly two hours Senator Everett with his graceful form his high clear voice and his faultless gesticulation held his audience remarkably until the closing words of his eloquent paration it says in this paper President Lincoln said in his speech the world will little note nor long remember well that's one was right what hear the rest of it Mr Brown there followed a selection by the military band at its conclusion The Honorable Ward Hill lemman arose and said ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States for 4 score7 years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal now we are engaged in a great civil war in whether this nation or any Nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we've come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives but a nation might live it is all together fitting and proper that we should do this but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground the brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract the world will little note no long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here it is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to The Unfinished work which they who fought here have th far so nobly Advanced 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 gave the last full me measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain 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 glor Glory Hallelujah Glory Glory hallelu Glory Glory hallelu his truth is might