The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-18
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 yesterday
at Antietam. Let the people read and compare
them, noting the full-hearted, overfowing
patriotism and devotion to liberty of the one,
and the cold, non-committal, pointless plati-
tudes of the other.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE BATTLE-FIELD or
GETTYSBURG
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the pro-
position that all men are created equal. Now
whether that nation, or any nation SO conceived
and so dedicated can long endure. We are met
on a great battlefield of that war. We are met
to dedicate o portion of IL as the final resting
place of those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. 1t is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
But in larger sense we cannot dedicate we
cannot c0nsecrate, we cannot halloW th1s
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
Struggled here, have consecrated 1t far above
our power to add deJract. The world will
little note nor long remember What we say
IL 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 be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us-that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to the cause for which
they here gave the last full measure of devo
tion-that we here highly resolve that. the dead
shall not have died in vain, that the nation
shall, under 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
ANTIETAM.
MY fellow-countrymen--In appearing before
you it is not for the purpose of making any
lengthy remarks, but simply TO express my ap-
probation of the ceremonies which have taken
place to. day. My appearance on this occasion
will be the speech that will make. My retec-
tions and my meditations will be in silent COM
munion with the dead whose deeds we are here
to commemorate. l shall not attempt to give
utterance to the feelings and emot ons inspired
| by the addresses and prayers which have been
| made, and the hymns which have been sung
| shall attempt no such thing.
lam merely here to give my countenance and
| aid to the ceremonies on this occasion, out
must be permitted to express my hope that we
may follow the example which has been SO elo-
| quen ly alluded to this afternoon, and which
mas been SO clearly set by the illustrions dead
when we look on your battlehelds and think OF
| thrsbraye men on both sides who have fallen in
| the fierce struggle of battle, and who sleep
| silent in their graves. Yes, whosleep IN silence
and peace after The conflict has ceased.
Would to God we OF the living could emulate
their example as they lie sleeping in their
tombs, and live together in friendship and
| Eeace! (Applause) You, my felloW-cltlzens,
have my earnest wishes, as you have had my
| efforts in times gone by, in the earliest and
most trying perlls, to preserve the union OF these
| States, TO restore peace and harmony to ouI
| distracted and divided country, and you slIal
| have my last efforts in vindicatton OF the nag
| of the republic and of the Constitution OF ouI
| fathers,