Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-09-26
END OF MIR. wYNYARD's WARD.
Two significant Speeches.

below we publish in connection the speech
delivered by the late President Lincoln at
the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery,
and that of Andrew johnson, delivered al
Antietam, on the l7th instant. Let the peo.
pie read and compare them, noting the full
hearted, ,ovcrllowing patriotism and devotion
of liberty Of the one, and the cold, non
committal, pointlcss platitudcs of the other
PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE BATTLE FELL
OF GETTYSBURG.
Fourscore and seven years ago our father,
brought forth upon this continent a new na
tion, conceived in liberty, and dedicated tc
the proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or any ma
tion so conceived and SO dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on great battle field
of that war. We are met to dedicate por-
tion of it as the final resting place of those
who here gave their lives that that nation
might live. 1t is altogether fitting and
proper that VIC should do this.
D.se is a. larger sense we cannot dedicate we
cannot consecrate, VIC cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have conseCrated it far above
our power to add or detract. The world
will little note nor long remember what we
say here, but it can never forget what they
did here. 1t is for us, the living, rather to
be dedicated here to the unfinished work
that they have thus far so nobly carried on.
1t is rather for us to he here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us-that from
these honored dead we take increased devo-
tion to the cause for which they here gave
the last full measure of devotion-that we
here highly resolve that the dead shall not
have died in vain, that the nation shall, un-
der God, have new birth of freedom, and
that the government OF the people, by the
people, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON on THE BATTLEFIELD OF
ANTIErAM.
MY FELLOW CoUSTRYMEN: In appearing
before you il is not for the purpose of max
ing any lengthy remarks, but simply to ex-
press my appreciation of the ceremonies
which have taken place to-day. My appear
ance on this occasion will be the speech that
/ will make. My reflections and my medi-
tations will be in silent communion with the
dead whose deeds we are here to COM
memorate. | shall not attempt to give
utterance to the feelings and emotions in
spired by the addresses and prayer which
have been made, and the hymns which have
been sung. shall attempt no such thing.
am merely here to give my countenancc
and aid to the ceremonies on this occasion,
but must be permitted to express my hope
that we may follow the example which has
been SO eloquently alluded to this afternoon,
and which has been so clearly set by the il
lustrious dead, when we look ON your battle
field and think of the brave men on both
sides who have fallen in the fierce struggle
of battle, and who sleep silent in their
graves. Yes, who sleep in silence and peace
after the conflict has ceased.
Would to God we ofthe living would emu
late their example as they lie sleeping in
their tombs, and live together in friendship
and peace! [Applause. You, my fellow
citizens, have my earnest wishes, as you
have had my efforts in times gone by, in the
earliest and most trying perils, TO preserve
the union OF the States, to restore peace and
harmony TO our distracted and divided coun-
try, and you shall have my last efforts in
vindication of the flag of the Republic and
OF the Constitution of our fathers.