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Abraham Lincoln's Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People'
In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the ...
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This week in Philly history: Which version of the Gettysburg Address did Abraham Lincoln actually say?
On Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at ... Lincoln went off-script during the address and added flourishes that weren’t pre-written. And those words are present in the ...