National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-10-04
Licoln at Gettysburgh and Johnson
at Antietam.

speech at the dedication of the Ma
tlohal Cemetery at Gettysburgh. In
grandeur of thought, and beauty OF
expression, in its originality and
perfect appropriateness to its noble
occasion, it has seldom, if ever. been
equal!ed. The Westminster r view
but echoed the opinion OF MANY
thousands when it pronounced it
tine finest speech that ever fell
from human lips" 1t is among our
proud and pleasant memories that
we heard it as it fell from the lips of
Mr.. Lincoln, on Cemetery Hill, and
we never tire Of re reading and re
calling it. 1t ought to be copied
yearly by every newspaper in the
land, and we copy it again:
MR.. LINCOLN'S SPEECH.
"Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived
III Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in a
great evil war, testing whether that
nation. or any nation so conceived
or SO dedicated. can long endure.
We are met on great battle frll of
that war. We are met to dedicate
a portion of it as the final resting
place OF those who here gave their
lives that the u&ti0n might live. 1t
Is altogether fitting and proper that
We should do so. But i'll a higher
sense we caunot cOnSecratc. we can
not haIlow this groihid. The brave
men, living and dead who strue.
gled here. make consecratcd it far
above our power to add or dctract.
The world viii little note. nor long
remember what we may say here,
but it can never forget what they
did here. 1t is for us. the living.
rather to be dedicated to the uniin-
lShed work that they have thus far
nohly carried on. 1t is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before uS-that from
these honored dead we take in2rcas
ed devotion to the cause for which
they here gave the last full measure
OF drVotioa-~that We here highly
resolve chat the dead shaii not have
died in vain. that the nation shall.
under God, have a new birth of
freedom. and that governments of
the people. by the people. and for
the people, Shall not perish from the
earth.
President Johnson has also made
a dedicatory speech. 1t Was at
Antietam on Tuesday last, and ask
/ ing pardon Of ALr. Lincolns shade
! for putting it into the same column
with his immortal uttcrancc, we
copy it ALSO
MIR. JOHNSON'S SPEECH.
Ny FELLOW CouNTRYMEX.-In
appearing before You, it is not for
The purpose of making any lengthy
remarks, but simply to eXlre my
appreciation ofthc ceremonies which
have taken place to dhy. Ny ap
pcarance on this occasion will bt
the speech that will make. My
reflections and my meditations will
be IN Silcn. communion with Oht
dead, whose deeds we are here tC
commemorate. | shall not attempt
to give uttcrancc to the feelings and
emotions inspired by the addresses
and prayers which have been made
ana the hymns that have been sung
shall attempt no such thing: | an
merely here TO give my countenauc,
and aid to the ceremonies on thi'
occasion. but | may he permitted t,
express my hope that we may !ol
low the example, which has been s.
eloquently alluded to this afternoon
and which has been SO clearly So
forth by theillustrious dead. Whcl
we look on youder battlefield
and think of the brave men ol
both sides, who fell III the iicrc
struggle of battle and who sleep 81
lent III their graves: yes, who SIeel
in silence and peace after the earn
est conflict has ceased, would t
God we OF the living could imitat
their example as they lay sleepin
IN their tombS, and live together i
friendship and peace, You, my tc
!. low citizens, have my earnest wisl
cS os Won have had nv efforts
|, times gone by, in the earliest an
most trying perils to preserve "a
= Union of these States, to restol
peace aud harmony to our distrac
: ed and divided country, and 70
, shall have my last efforts in Wind
cation of the the ilagof the Republ
and of the Constitution of our Fatl
|. crs.
>, How can contrast be strong
II than ,hat between these two spece'
Il es !.-bctwecn the ntter absence
\ all thought of self in the one, an
,r the fourteen AIS" aud "niS's' III u
II seven sentences of the other'--b
II ,wocn the noble devotion to I'll
- couse of the people, speaking thf
le ,be one. and the cheap selltlinei'
,e ns appropriate for the dedleotion
4. . rnhal rravc ward as of the Resin
nloce of patriots, fthe other! \
, need. however to continue the coi
- porison. The latter is as far h