Gettysburg Address

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thanks, maharba, this time your post and personal point was entirely comprehensible to me!

(11-23-2015 11:47 PM)maharba Wrote:  It really seems that his speech was so short that folks there and then were a bit stunned it ended so quickly. My current thinking is that the Gettysburg Address of Lincoln was not 'interrupted several times by applause... Lincoln was disappointed in the immediate (flat) reception "of his Address.

That's the way I have read it, and that the people had not even gotten entirely quiet after Everett's speech yet. (Could you name one of those who claim he was pleased? Thanks.) I don't think I've seen the theory Lincoln was immediately pleased. Donald considers Lincoln's "not scour" quote to Lamont reliable, other than the rest of Lamon's Gettysburg account.