Obama still seems to believe this - Pennsylvania paper in 1863 editorial calling Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 'silly'

Obama can't make the Commemoration! "Copperheads" of the World Unite! Why go to the 150 year commemoration of one of the finest speeches written and given. It was just a speech given by a dead, white, Republican. This old Civil War stuff happened before the Year Zero, when Obama was born. m/r

Pennsylvania paper retracts 1863 editorial calling Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 'silly' | Fox News

By Karl de Vries  November 17, 2013

When it comes to correcting the record about a timeless speech, no retraction is too late.

One-hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln passionately appealed for the preservation of the union in the Gettysburg Address, the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania, known back then as the Patriot & Union, is retreating from its stance in 1863 that Abe’s Civil War speech was “silly.”

 “In an editorial about President Abraham Lincoln’s speech delivered Nov. 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, the Patriot & Union failed to recognize its momentous importance, timeless eloquence, and lasting significance,” the paper wrote on its editorial page Thursday. “The Patriot-News regrets the error.”

“We pass over the silly remarks of the president.”

- Harrisburg Patriot & Union editorial from 1863

The address and its history, of course, have long since been woven into the fable of American history. An appeal for the preservation of the union and a plea that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth, Lincoln’s timeless words were delivered at a commemoration for a cemetery honoring the nearly 8,000 men killed at the July 1863 battle. The speech would become venerated not only for its elocution and purpose, but for its connection to the crucial battle, which marked the south’s last incursion into northern territory for the remainder of the war.

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