To: adopt4Christ
Lincolns speech may have lasted about 2 min. The speech before his lasted two hours.
9 posted on
11/19/2007 3:05:06 PM PST by
Red_Devil 232
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To: Molly Pitcher
10 posted on
11/19/2007 3:06:50 PM PST by
Dog
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To: Red_Devil 232
The two-hour-long speech was given by Edward Everett, a famous orator, who had been the VP candidate on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860 (John Bell’s running mate). Bell and Everett were supported by former Whigs unwilling to join the Republican Party (which was virtually non-existent in the slaveholding states).
To: Red_Devil 232
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
21 posted on
11/19/2007 3:24:34 PM PST by
mdittmar
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