Slavery is Evil
06 Mar 2022Kichuk
The text of the Gettysburg AddressSome time after the event, Everett wrote the following lines to Lincoln: "I will be glad if I can flatter myself that in two hours I managed to get as close to the central idea of this event as you managed to do in two minutes."[4] Lincoln replied that he was glad to hear that the speech was not a "complete failure"[4].
Despite the importance attached to speech in the history of the United States, there are different opinions in the academic environment regarding the exact wording. The text of speech exists in several versions. In addition, in the transcripts of speech in newspaper publications of that day, there are also differences in the construction of phrases, the structure of the text and punctuation [5].
The text of the speech exists in five versions, and all of them belong to the hand of Lincoln. Lincoln provided one copy each to his secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. Other versions of the text appeared later, after the speech. Lincoln sent one of them to Everett