[mdittmar]

Lincolns speech may have lasted about 2 min. The speech before his lasted two hours.

That was Edward Everett,he sent a message to President Lincoln that day.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours,as you did in two minutes

[Red_Devil 232]

There is not a politician who would or could be as graceful and say that about rival’s speech today.