GDG- Borrowed Phrases

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Dick,

-just happen to have a copy of the New-York Times, dated Monday, July 6, 
1863.
Totalling 30 column inches, the article begins:

"Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened 
upon a central figure
of transcendingly important interest - the dead body of an oldest born, 
crushed by a shell in a
position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death 
in a building
where surgeons dared not to stay?..."

The last two paragraphs state:

"What remains to say of the fight?....

I leave the details to my excellent friend and associate Mr. Henry. My pen 
is heavy.
Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburgh have baptized with your blood the
second birth of Freedom in America, how you are to be envied! I rise from a 
grave whose
wet clay I have passionately kissed, and I look up and see Christ spanning 
this battle-field
with his feet and reaching fraternal and lovingly up to heaven. His right 
hand opens the
gates of Paradise - with his left he beckons to these mutilated, bloody, 
swollen forms to ascend."

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Richard M Kadas" <rkadas at sbcglobal.net>
To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:49 AM
Subject: GDG- Borrowed Phrases


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> It seems to me that Lincoln borrowed a key phrase in the Gettysburg 
> Address *without attribution) from Bayard Wilken son's father, a New York 
> Times reporter, who used it in an articl about GB. Can anyone refresh my 
> memory regarding the exact wording?
>  Thanks,
>  Dick
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