Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address...

Item # 705939

November 20, 1863

THE EVENING BULLETIN, Providence, Rhode Island, Nov. 20, 1863 At the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg Edward Everett was the featured speaker, and all of pages 4, 5 & a portion of page 6 are taken up with his very lengthy speech.
Lincoln's talk was not the focus of the ceremony, but history would prove his speech would be perhaps the most famous by any President of the United States. Indeed, some newspapers of the day did not even print Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
But this newspaper did, on page 7 under the heading: "The Dedication Of The National Cemetery at Gettysburg" which includes the ceremonial details, then comes: "...The President then delivered the following dedicatory speech. 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth..." with the balance of Lincoln's famous address. Then some concluding comments by the writer: "...long continued applause. Three cheers were here given for the President & the Governors of the states. After the delivery of this address, the dirge, a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Stockton, and the benediction closed the exercises, and the vast assemblage separated at about 2 o'clock."
Eight pages, of smaller folio size, foxing to portions of the front page, very nice condition.