The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-02-15
nsAe1 ia IL Nsv Yssk Itn0 e Nov.
n. l0a4 fAs following b IN extract
fron tAo Iottee:

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~ s8eAsaSss e ~ AaAsssssaa taAay
Of vhieh yes have alrsaAy ~ fun %.
e4deat anA 1aaSiy b aasordaAos vtGh ths
psogran Drsvisssfy DuAaishsl TAes va
- Asvsvss. - laF0s ni,1aasy AisDaay
- vA0 aat1e1Vafal 90 H. pssaala1aa
vas uaARpssssAiy stin ~ eAs rsassa tAal
ma0t e tie 91aseo ~ voeo a1poctaA q
3oia II we're sithss 81 viewing the battis-
field - had hurried - 70 the ssnsasry
before ths procsssioa started The eosa-
ing prayer By the Rev. Mr.. 0tscktsa vas
a. much effect 1pea the auAisacs ~ ths
classic ssntsnoa0 Of tho crater e the day.
President Laneoin's brisf address was de-
nvsrod n . clear. loud tone OF voice,
which could b distinctly hard At the sx-
trsms limits Of the large asssmbia0A II
vas dsltvsrs4. Or. rathee. rad froa Q
sheet Of papss which the s0sak9 hsld In
hi. hand. IN . v~. ls'ihssste nannss.
with strong emphasis ana With 0 most
businsssiiks air. The Asdiea&ioa esrsno-
niles were APPARENTLY . minor oonsidsra-
ton. for even while Mr.. Everett was DE-
liverinE his splendid oration tAsss wsre a.
many people wandering about the 6slds
made memorable By the Aseoo struggles
Of July a. stood around the stanA listen
ing to his eloquent psrtodA They seem to
have considered with President Lincoln
what was done here that deserved their
attention.
When Lincoln opsI<a.
Ths speech Of Mr.. Lincoln % pub
lished the morning after its delivery
was as follows. including the applause
with which It was received BY the au-
dience:
yourscors and seven yeArs ago eur t..
thers brought forth upon this continsnt Q
new nation. conceived in liberty and dedi-
Gated to the proposition that all men are
created equal. (Applauss.l Now We are
engaged In . great civil war, testing
whether that nation or any nation 20 con-
ceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on . great battlefield Of that
war. We have come to dedicate . portion
OF that field a. . final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that the
nation might live. 1t n altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this, but In
a large sense We cannot dedicate. We can
not consecrats. We cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men. living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated II far
above our power to add or detract Zap
plause.l The world WIN little note nor long
remember what We say here. but It can
never forget what they did herA ZAP
plause.1 It II for US, the living. rather to
be dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus
far so nobly carried on. IAppiausAl II
Is rather for US to BE- here dedicated to
the great task remaining before -; that
from these honored dead We take IN.
creased devotion to that cause to which
they here gave the last fun Asasurs Of
devotion: that We here highly resolve that
these dead shall not havs aisd in vain
[applause1: that this nation u11ae God
shall have . nsw birth Of frssdoa, and
that governmsnt Of the psopaA ~ the
people and for the people shall not perish
from ths~sarth utoas and continued ~
plause.1
It may bs well 10 stats that he only
speakers at the dedieat1oa ceremoniss
were the Rev. Mr.. Stockton. VINO made
the opening prayer; Edward Everett.
the orator Of the day. and Prudent
Lincoln.