Gettysburg Address

[Eva Elisabeth]

(11-29-2015 11:38 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Maybe he just didn't think to use the word?

That's what I would think! The speech was entitled "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions". Perhaps the Union as a basis was also just too self-evident and enclosed in the "Our". Likewise you can ask why no other orators/politicians in those days had made it a topic (since the one in 1815).