In 1850, Theodore Parker, an abolitionist and Unitarian minister, had written about a “government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.” But it is Lincoln’s version that we remember today.
Lincoln was not the first person to use a version of this phrase. of the people, by the people, for the people. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum) The state acquired the address in March 1944. Over six months, they donated about $50,000, and Chicago businessman Marshall Field III contributed the rest of the $60,000 price. The state’s children helped raise the money. Then in 1943, the owners offered to sell the copy to the state of Illinois for $60,000 (about $950,000 in 2021 dollars) so that it could be made accessible to the public for generations to come. The Everett Copy passed through the hands of several private owners over the next 80 years. These are the page numbers from when the speech was part of the book.) (If you look carefully at the Everett Copy, you can see “57” at the top of one page and “58” at the top of the other.
When Everett received the copy of the speech, he bound it in a book along with a copy of his own address to be sold at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair in New York City. Everett later wrote Lincoln that, “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.”Įverett asked the president for a handwritten copy of his address so that it could be sold to raise money to care for sick and wounded soldiers. " The main speaker was Edward Everett, one the nation’s best orators. He was simply asked to deliver " a few appropriate remarks. Abraham Lincoln was not the primary speaker at the November 19, 1863, dedication of a national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa.
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