Excerpt from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Illuminating Aspects of This Most Well-Known Presidential Speech; References to the Literary Worth of the Address<br><br>Evening before the delivery of thegettys'burg. Address the result was anything but successful. Un like Seward, he had not the tongue of a ready speaker and' with char: acteristic selfr'criticism he realized' this defect himself. This negative characteristic was undoubtedly due in part to the fact that standard Eng lish was an] acquired dialect with him and theiefore he lacked the spontainity in its hse of one to the manner born.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.