Gettysburg Address

[maharba]

Contrasting the early 1838 Lyceum Speech of Lincoln to Galusha Grow's 1861 acceptance speech as Speaker of the House. To me, the opening of Representative G. A. Grow's speech has the nearly identical of Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address. I am sure Lincoln patterned the Gettysburg
Address after Speaker Grow's speech. But just as Speaker Grow's speech ran on far too long and became convoluted, so to me did Abraham Lincoln in his earlier 1838 Lyceum Speech (as a young man). Grow's speech fell to ranting on about floating gore and blood. While Lincoln in the Lyceum Speech seemed to be a young man letting himself run on, to distraction here and there. Napoleon, Caesar and more does Lincoln recall in his Speech. There is one thing quite odd about the Lyceum Speech, and one word Lincoln never uses there. Anyone else notice a notable word that Lincoln entirely omitted from the Lyceum Address?