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Originally posted by ewest:
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

This brief discourse (it lasted only 2 min.) followed a two-hour oration by Edward Everett, the main speaker at the event and one of the most famous speakers of the time.
Any relation to Edward Everett Horton of "Fractured Fairy Tales" fame? Now THERE was oratory!

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