Gettysburg Address

[Eva Elisabeth]

(11-20-2015 03:28 PM)maharba Wrote:  The July 4 1861 Address by Galusha A. Grow accepting as Speaker of the House appears certain to be the template that Abraham Lincoln had decided to build a later speech upon, to me. The fortunate win at the later Battle of Gettysburg furnished Lincoln a time and place to use the Speech. If not Gettysburg, it would have filled some other slot. Lincoln shrewdly appraised Speaker Grow's over-long and shriller speech. He shrank that down, and tacked on in places a few glowing phrases from other varied sources.

I am not sure if I got your point correctly, but it seems like the question whether the egg was first or the hen.

While Abraham Lincoln may have gotten ideas from the Bible, or other sources (which is legitimate), I think he composed and dedicated this speech to the occasion, and not v.v.

Mahraba, please kindly allow me to pose this general request. It might be a language issue (English is not my native tongue), but I'm afraid I often read and re-read your posts and cannot entirely figure how they are intended to be understood. It is obvious you have read a lot on the topics, yet I often don't know what you intend to say beyond the info you forward - do you consider it reliable or do you question it, or do you ask for others' opinions/knowledge on whether it is, do you intend to criticize, are you stating an opinion/agreement or do you feel neutral about what you write when you forward historians' opinions?

Please - could you try to explain your what you intend (to ask/express) with your posts perhaps in a clearer/more simple way? Thanks - I would really like to understand.

(11-19-2015 11:29 AM)maharba Wrote:  I don't think anyone is quite sure, today, just where on the fields that the speeches took place?

Please see Scott's post #1895 here:
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...g#pid45688