WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.000 The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. 00:09.000 --> 00:23.000 Music 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont. 00:28.000 --> 00:33.000 This week, freemen everywhere honor the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. 00:33.000 --> 00:37.000 So tonight, Cavalcade brings to you a new version of an American classic. 00:37.000 --> 00:43.000 It is a story beloved by millions. A story of Lincoln and a wounded Confederate soldier. 00:43.000 --> 00:47.000 The Perfect Tribute by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 Tonight's play was especially written for Cavalcade by Rachel Hayes. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 Our star portraying Abraham Lincoln is Edwin Jerome. 00:55.000 --> 01:02.000 The Perfect Tribute with Edwin Jerome as Lincoln on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company. 01:02.000 --> 01:23.000 Music 01:23.000 --> 01:29.000 Who shall recognize and measure the stature of emperor, minister, president? 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 Who shall weigh such high matters of firmness? 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 First, they must be placed in time. 01:36.000 --> 01:40.000 In this case, it is the morning of November 18th, 1863. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 It is the president we seek to measure. 01:43.000 --> 01:49.000 And so it is in the White House among those statesmen closest to him that we look for clues to his greatness. 01:49.000 --> 01:55.000 To know his moods from day to day, his wishes, his high status. 01:55.000 --> 01:59.000 But death complicates all status. 01:59.000 --> 02:06.000 The democratic dream is reached by torturous roots, journeying its twisted miles up through the jungles of the year. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 Grant trapped at Chattanooga. Burnside, the siege at Knoxville. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 One of his sons buried, the other ill. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 A message to Congress to be prepared. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 And only a handful of victors. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 And in the White House in the anti-roma of the president's office, let us look at seekers for power. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Men with little to lose. Men with hidden fears. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 Looking with their whiskers and massive heads like statesmen. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 The president will be down in a moment, gentlemen. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 He's saying goodbye to young Master Tad. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 Taking his time about it, isn't he? 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 Master Tad has been very ill, Mr. Stevens. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 He's Mr. Lincoln's favorite child, as you know. 02:42.000 --> 02:49.000 Tell me, hey, do you think the president is angry because we begged off for him to get his bug? 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 He didn't mention it. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Between you and me, I think it's a very poor strategy on the part of Lincoln and Seward. 02:54.000 --> 02:59.000 Going to Gettysburg at a time like this and reminding the country of our enormous losses. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Lincoln and Seward are dead cards politically, anyway, both of them. 03:02.000 --> 03:05.000 The dead going to eulogize the dead, huh? 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Not bad, ain't that, yet? 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Oh, here's old Abe now. 03:09.000 --> 03:13.000 You'll take care of those matters for me, Stanton, won't you? 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 I have a lot of them, Mr. President. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Well, Mr. Chase, Mr. Stevens. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 Morning, Mr. President. 03:16.000 --> 03:17.000 Morning, Mr. President. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 It was good of you gentlemen to come and see me off. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 About this Union Pacific franchise, Mr. President. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 Mr. Stanton will speak for me in all these matters, Mr. Chase. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 We are keeping them waiting down at the station. 03:29.000 --> 03:35.000 About your speech at Gettysburg, Mr. President, we've thought it expedient to advise you that as... 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 I wish you would advise me, gentlemen. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 I can't think what to say there. 03:39.000 --> 03:45.000 For months now, I've been searching my soul for words humble enough to say over those heroic dead. 03:45.000 --> 03:50.000 Words to embrace what all of them fought for, blue and gray. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 For they're all of them our dead, you know. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you, Mr. President. 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 We can count on Edward Everett to say the right thing. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 He's never failed yet. 04:00.000 --> 04:04.000 This one ought to be good, taking him close on to six months, right? 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Or so he would have us believe. 04:06.000 --> 04:12.000 I must say, I think the man has a bit of gall putting off these dedication ceremonies from June to November, 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 just so he could polish up his speech. 04:14.000 --> 04:19.000 A man like Edward Everett could get things pretty much his own way, if he's of mine too. 04:19.000 --> 04:22.000 I believe he intends to speak at some length, too. 04:22.000 --> 04:30.000 And that's why we thought it might be well if the President would restrict his address to a few well-chosen words. 04:30.000 --> 04:35.000 Cold in Gettysburg in November, and they won't be in a mood to hear too lengthy orations, you know. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 I quite agree with you, gentlemen. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 And now, shall we go? 04:39.000 --> 04:43.000 I take it Mrs. Lincoln has decided to remain here with Master Tad. 04:43.000 --> 04:49.000 She had intended to leave Tad in the care of his excellent doctors, but she got some bad news recently. 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 Oh, really? 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 Her brother was reported killed in action, the 4th Kentucky. 04:54.000 --> 04:59.000 You see, gentlemen, how they're dead are also ours. 04:59.000 --> 05:05.000 Well, there'll be time, a little time on the train, to give this matter further thought. 05:05.000 --> 05:21.000 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 05:21.000 --> 05:25.000 Your gentlemen, mark my words. Grant will break through at Chattanooga sooner than we think. 05:25.000 --> 05:31.000 But, Mr. Hay, I understand Grant's in an extremely dangerous position. Isn't that so, Mr. President? 05:31.000 --> 05:38.000 Well, sir, I can only repeat what they say about General Grant. Where that man goes, things seem to get... 05:38.000 --> 05:43.000 But with the Tennessee River at his back and Bragg's men in front of him on the heights of Missionary Ridge, 05:43.000 --> 05:47.000 isn't it possible he's bitten off more than he can chew? 05:47.000 --> 05:52.000 Well, now, General Grant isn't exactly alone with his back to the river and his front to the ridge. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 He must have an army somewhere around him. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 Yes, of course. 05:56.000 --> 06:01.000 Mr. Surge, Saunders, boys in the smoke are asking for you. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 Lively game of whiskey getting underway. 06:03.000 --> 06:07.000 Well, uncommon find of whiskey, Mr. Blair. Are you coming, Mr. President? 06:07.000 --> 06:12.000 No, thank you. You gentlemen go right ahead. I have a few things to do myself. 06:12.000 --> 06:16.000 May I borrow a sheet of paper and a pencil from you, Mr. Surge? 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 Certainly, Mr. President. Here's the pencil. 06:18.000 --> 06:19.000 Thank you, sir. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 I'll tell the boy to fetch you a sample of the paper. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 No, don't bother. The back of this portfolio will do. 06:24.000 --> 06:28.000 Just a few notes for my address to the people of Gettysburg. 06:28.000 --> 06:34.000 He sits there alone, a creaking wooden coat of a train skirting the Chesapeake. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 He wets the end of the borrowed pencil and begins to write. 06:37.000 --> 06:44.000 The words, as during the weeks before, still come slow, slow. 06:44.000 --> 06:49.000 What can a man say to those who have buried their dead? 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 Words of but wooden things, mere labels of feelings, 06:52.000 --> 06:57.000 capturing only the farthest echoings of heart and mind. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 What can a man say seeing his city smolder 07:00.000 --> 07:05.000 and the hopes of men crying out in the agony of twisted steed? 07:05.000 --> 07:09.000 He does not even dare to hope he knows what to say. 07:09.000 --> 07:12.000 But when the presidential train rolls into Gettysburg Station, 07:12.000 --> 07:20.000 Abraham Lincoln has written down 266 words on a torn scrap of paper with a borrowed pencil. 07:20.000 --> 07:23.000 Gettysburg, Gettysburg. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.160 This way, Mr. President. 07:26.160 --> 07:28.000 There you are, Carrie. 07:28.000 --> 07:32.000 No, sir. I'll need telegrams for me, bring them to the Wheel's house. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 Oh, Mr. Everett. Mr. Everett. 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 Yes, Mr. President? 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 I'm glad to see you, sir. 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 I understand both of us are staying at Mr. Wheel's house. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.800 Mr. Seward staying at the harbour. Why don't you share my carriage? 07:44.800 --> 07:48.000 Why thank you Mr. President. I am honored. 07:48.000 --> 08:04.400 Music 08:04.400 --> 08:06.400 Ah good evening Mr. President. 08:06.400 --> 08:07.800 Good evening Judge Will. 08:07.800 --> 08:09.200 Welcome to Gettysburg. 08:09.200 --> 08:10.600 Thank you sir. Thank you. 08:10.600 --> 08:13.800 Your trip must have been tiring Mr. President. 08:13.800 --> 08:16.200 If you follow me I'll show you to your room. 08:16.200 --> 08:17.800 Supper will be ready in an hour. 08:17.800 --> 08:18.800 Thank you sir. 08:18.800 --> 08:21.200 Gettysburg seems to be full of activity tonight. 08:21.200 --> 08:23.400 Yes that's so Mr. Everett. 08:23.400 --> 08:27.600 Those bands have been going all day and there's a stump speech on every street corner. 08:27.600 --> 08:30.400 One would think it's a political convention we're holding. 08:30.400 --> 08:32.200 Ah here we are. 08:32.200 --> 08:35.000 This is your room Mr. President. 08:35.000 --> 08:38.200 Won't you gentlemen come in for a few moments? 08:38.200 --> 08:41.600 I think I'll leave early with your permission Mr. President. 08:41.600 --> 08:43.400 My voice you know. 08:43.400 --> 08:46.400 I must save it for my oration at the battlefield tomorrow. 08:46.400 --> 08:47.400 Yes. 08:47.400 --> 08:49.600 Well then good night Mr. Everett. 08:49.600 --> 08:51.600 Good night Mr. President. 08:51.600 --> 08:54.400 Mr. Will good night sir. 08:54.400 --> 08:57.200 Well I hope you'll be comfortable here Mr. President. 08:57.200 --> 09:00.200 Well I'm glad to see the bed has no footboard. 09:00.200 --> 09:03.400 I'll be able to sleep stretched out for a change. 09:03.400 --> 09:07.800 You have your excellent secretary Mr. Hay to thank for that Mr. President. 09:07.800 --> 09:11.000 I had no idea you were quite so tall. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.600 Come in. 09:13.600 --> 09:15.800 These two telegrams just arrived for you Mr. President. 09:15.800 --> 09:19.400 Oh thank you lieutenant. 09:19.400 --> 09:22.800 Both from the secretary of war I see. 09:22.800 --> 09:28.000 I hope to be one for Mrs. Lincoln. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.200 This one's good news. 09:30.200 --> 09:33.400 Grant is starting battle at Chattanooga. 09:33.400 --> 09:35.200 Good. 09:35.200 --> 09:39.400 And this, thank God. 09:39.400 --> 09:45.000 Mrs. Lincoln reports your son's health is a great deal better. 09:45.000 --> 09:46.600 Thank God. 09:46.600 --> 10:04.200 Music 10:04.200 --> 10:07.400 In the morning the bands began again. 10:07.400 --> 10:13.200 Lincoln in tall silk hat and white gloves rode a chestnut horse up to the cemetery. 10:13.200 --> 10:16.000 There a multitude stood above the dead. 10:16.000 --> 10:20.400 Troops, old men, boys, politicians, statesmen. 10:20.400 --> 10:24.200 The ambassadors of empires waited like a heavy and silent sea. 10:24.200 --> 10:28.800 Behind them stretched the long slow running slopes of land back to the dim bulk of the 10:28.800 --> 10:30.000 Alligator. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.800 Above them the November sun glittered like steel. 10:33.800 --> 10:36.200 Edward Everett spoke for two hours. 10:36.200 --> 10:41.200 His chiseled sentences delighted the crowd down to the very last word. 10:41.200 --> 10:50.800 Through the latest period of recorded time in the glorious annals of our common country 10:50.800 --> 10:59.000 there will be no brighter page than that which relates to the battle of Gettysburg. 10:59.000 --> 11:14.000 Music 11:14.000 --> 11:26.800 And now, now ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. 11:26.800 --> 11:35.200 Our score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation 11:35.200 --> 11:42.800 conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 11:42.800 --> 11:46.200 Now we are engaged in a great civil war. 11:46.200 --> 11:51.400 As Abraham Lincoln speaks these words, his eyes look out over the men and women who have 11:51.400 --> 11:56.200 come to Gettysburg on this day to honor the dead who fell here in the bloodiest battle 11:56.200 --> 11:57.200 of court history. 11:57.200 --> 12:04.000 Promoters are here, men with dollar cigars and heavy gold watch chains. 12:04.000 --> 12:09.500 It is for us the living the President is saying, but they don't hear him. 12:09.500 --> 12:15.600 The local politicians, the judges, ladies and black criminals, black lace parasols. 12:15.600 --> 12:21.500 Their parasols bobbing up and down as they talk animatedly to one another and nod smilingly 12:21.500 --> 12:25.000 to the beaver-headed gentleman who weaved in and out among the crowds. 12:25.000 --> 12:29.800 It is rather for us to be dedicated here. 12:29.800 --> 12:32.800 He doesn't even see the bored and distracted faces before him. 12:32.800 --> 12:38.700 He doesn't see a young man in a check suit, a disheveled braggart from oil city. 12:38.700 --> 12:43.000 In that crowd Lincoln does not see John Wilkes Booth. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.200 Death complicates all strategies. 12:46.200 --> 12:48.200 Lincoln is speaking to history. 12:48.200 --> 12:57.600 Let we hear highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation 12:57.600 --> 13:05.800 under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the 13:05.800 --> 13:14.200 people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. 13:14.200 --> 13:24.800 Strange silence and a spatter of applause, no more. 13:24.800 --> 13:42.000 Then his long gone figure turns and he walks back to his seat. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.100 The day in Washington, what to be done, bills to be signed, senators to be heard, army chiefs 13:47.100 --> 13:48.100 to be met. 13:48.100 --> 13:53.800 A sense of failure at Gettysburg buried deep in the corridors of his mind. 13:53.800 --> 13:56.600 Mr. Hayes in the outside office, Mr. President. 13:56.600 --> 13:58.400 Oh, come in, John. 13:58.400 --> 13:59.800 What is it? 13:59.800 --> 14:04.100 I thought you might be interested in seeing the reactions of the press to the Gettysburg 14:04.100 --> 14:05.100 speech. 14:05.100 --> 14:06.100 You have a new one there? 14:06.100 --> 14:07.100 Yes. 14:07.100 --> 14:08.100 Will you read it, sir? 14:08.100 --> 14:09.100 Let's see. 14:09.100 --> 14:17.100 We know not where to look for a more admirable speech than the brief one which the President 14:17.100 --> 14:20.900 made at the close of Mr. Everett's oration. 14:20.900 --> 14:23.600 I can tell them where to look. 14:23.600 --> 14:30.480 Could the most elaborate and splendid oration be more beautiful, more touching, more inspiring 14:30.480 --> 14:33.300 than the thrilling words of the President? 14:33.300 --> 14:36.600 They had in our judgment the charm and power of the very highest eloquent. 14:36.600 --> 14:37.600 Well, sir. 14:37.600 --> 14:40.700 Well, it's a very generous opinion, Mr. Hayes. 14:40.700 --> 14:43.600 I'm grateful to the gentleman who is its author. 14:43.600 --> 14:47.400 But, Mr. Hayes, have you read this? 14:47.400 --> 14:51.700 We pass over the silly remarks of the President. 14:51.700 --> 14:57.100 For the credit of the nation, we are willing that the veil of oblivion be dropped over 14:57.100 --> 15:01.600 them, but they shall no more be repeated or thought of. 15:01.600 --> 15:03.700 Well, Mr. Hayes? 15:03.700 --> 15:06.200 Someone with a political grudge, I'd say. 15:06.200 --> 15:11.600 No, John, I have made many successful speeches in my day, campaign speeches, some speeches, 15:11.600 --> 15:15.500 lectures, but I know I'm no great shakes as a public speaker. 15:15.500 --> 15:17.700 Everett has the silver tongue. 15:17.700 --> 15:18.700 Mine's brass. 15:18.700 --> 15:22.400 Yesterday's must have been pretty poor stuff. 15:22.400 --> 15:28.600 Yet somehow I felt I wanted to speak for all the boys, blue and gray, who were sleeping 15:28.600 --> 15:30.700 there at Gettysburg. 15:30.700 --> 15:33.700 What time is it, Mr. Hayes? 15:33.700 --> 15:34.700 Near four. 15:34.700 --> 15:36.700 I think I'll take a walk before supper. 15:36.700 --> 15:38.200 Will you excuse me, please? 15:38.200 --> 15:40.200 Oh, yes, of course, sir. 15:40.200 --> 15:44.700 Sometimes I wonder when will they understand? 15:44.700 --> 16:00.400 You are listening to Edwin Jerome as Abraham Lincoln in a new radio version of The Perfect 16:00.400 --> 16:10.500 Tribute on the cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company. 16:10.500 --> 16:12.500 The day drops quickly in November. 16:12.500 --> 16:17.400 Strange brightness from the arcing sky leading the elms as fragile as coal. 16:17.400 --> 16:23.700 The avenues are broad on hurried gestures, wide as the day was wide as broad as slow. 16:23.700 --> 16:29.400 And the monuments, the scarce mute monuments poise in their marble dreams. 16:29.400 --> 16:34.400 Mr. Hamilton walks along avenues in the shadow of the great new hospital with a wounded life 16:34.400 --> 16:35.400 silent in pain. 16:35.400 --> 16:38.400 Oh, oh, oh, that was a close one. 16:38.400 --> 16:44.400 You scared the daylights out of me, son. 16:44.400 --> 16:46.400 Running like General Grant was after you. 16:46.400 --> 16:48.400 Must have used the whole highway, sir. 16:48.400 --> 16:49.400 Oh, I'm sorry, son. 16:49.400 --> 16:52.400 I guess I am too big for these walks. 16:52.400 --> 16:54.400 Didn't hurt yourself, did you? 16:54.400 --> 16:55.400 No. 16:55.400 --> 16:57.400 Well, then, what's wrong? 16:57.400 --> 16:59.400 Everything's wrong, everything. 16:59.400 --> 17:02.400 You Yankees burned and ruined everything. 17:02.400 --> 17:03.400 Yankee. 17:03.400 --> 17:04.400 Go ahead, son. 17:04.400 --> 17:06.400 Go ahead and cry. 17:06.400 --> 17:08.400 Every little bit helps. 17:08.400 --> 17:10.400 I'm in a hurry. 17:10.400 --> 17:11.400 I want a lawyer. 17:11.400 --> 17:14.400 I've got to have one now or it'll be too late. 17:14.400 --> 17:16.400 Well, what do you want with a lawyer? 17:16.400 --> 17:18.400 I want him to draw a will. 17:18.400 --> 17:21.400 My brother's going to die, they say. 17:21.400 --> 17:25.400 Well, I used to practice law now and again, son. 17:25.400 --> 17:26.400 Maybe I could help you. 17:26.400 --> 17:28.400 Maybe you wouldn't want to. 17:28.400 --> 17:29.400 Why? 17:29.400 --> 17:30.400 We're rebels. 17:30.400 --> 17:31.400 Oh. 17:31.400 --> 17:34.400 My brother's Captain Carter Blair in the First Alabama. 17:34.400 --> 17:35.400 I see. 17:35.400 --> 17:38.400 He's over there in the prison hospital. 17:38.400 --> 17:39.400 Uh-huh. 17:39.400 --> 17:43.400 Well, tell me, do you think you'll have any difficulty getting me into that building? 17:43.400 --> 17:45.400 Oh, don't worry about the letting you in. 17:45.400 --> 17:47.400 They all know me there. 17:47.400 --> 17:49.400 Well, then, you just go right on ahead, son. 17:49.400 --> 17:50.400 I'll follow. 17:50.400 --> 18:06.400 Here's my brother's cop, sir. 18:06.400 --> 18:08.400 Carter? 18:08.400 --> 18:09.400 Carter? 18:09.400 --> 18:10.400 Wake up. 18:10.400 --> 18:12.400 I've got a lawyer for you. 18:12.400 --> 18:14.400 Lawyer? 18:14.400 --> 18:15.400 Oh. 18:15.400 --> 18:17.400 Oh, it's you, Worry. 18:17.400 --> 18:18.400 You brought the lawyer? 18:18.400 --> 18:19.400 Good boy. 18:19.400 --> 18:22.400 Thank you for coming, sir. 18:22.400 --> 18:23.400 I expect... 18:23.400 --> 18:26.400 I think we'd better begin. 18:26.400 --> 18:29.400 Why, there's ten minutes on the table. 18:29.400 --> 18:31.400 Tell me, Mr. 18:31.400 --> 18:35.400 I'm sorry, but my brother didn't tell me your name. 18:35.400 --> 18:38.400 Well, your brother and I met informally, Captain. 18:38.400 --> 18:42.400 I should say more on the physical level than the social. 18:42.400 --> 18:44.400 He charged into me like a young steer. 18:44.400 --> 18:46.400 My name's Lincoln. 18:46.400 --> 18:47.400 Lincoln? 18:47.400 --> 18:52.400 Well, that's a good name from your standpoint. 18:52.400 --> 18:54.400 You are a Northerner, I take it. 18:54.400 --> 18:56.400 Yes, I'm on that side of the fence. 18:56.400 --> 18:58.400 You may call me a Yankee if you like. 18:58.400 --> 19:00.400 Well, sir, my name's Carter Hampton Blair. 19:00.400 --> 19:02.400 Will you shake hands? 19:02.400 --> 19:04.400 With pleasure, Captain Blair. 19:04.400 --> 19:07.400 Well, now then, shall we begin? 19:07.400 --> 19:09.400 I'm afraid I don't know the proper form. 19:09.400 --> 19:12.400 What I want to say is, 19:12.400 --> 19:18.400 I want to leave what's left of my worldly goods to Miss Sally Maxfield, my fiancé. 19:18.400 --> 19:20.400 I see. Well, now, you rest a moment. 19:20.400 --> 19:22.400 We'll write it this way. 19:22.400 --> 19:27.400 I'm Carter Hampton Blair, in right and sober mind, 19:27.400 --> 19:31.400 to hereby bequeath to Miss Sally Maxfield. 19:31.400 --> 19:50.400 Well, Captain, now all you have to do is sign it. 19:50.400 --> 19:52.400 I expect that now you'll recover. 19:52.400 --> 19:53.400 You'll be mighty fast. 19:53.400 --> 19:55.400 Will's are the best tonics in the world. 19:55.400 --> 19:57.400 I've got to be running along. 19:57.400 --> 19:59.400 Oh, please don't go. 19:59.400 --> 20:01.400 I'd like to talk. 20:01.400 --> 20:03.400 Well, I have a little time, Captain. 20:03.400 --> 20:06.400 I'd be glad to spend it with you if it won't be too tiring. 20:06.400 --> 20:10.400 No, it won't. Right now I feel very strong. 20:10.400 --> 20:13.400 I'd like to talk about that other Lincoln. 20:13.400 --> 20:14.400 You mean Abe Lincoln? 20:14.400 --> 20:16.400 Yes. 20:16.400 --> 20:18.400 Now, don't misunderstand me, sir. 20:18.400 --> 20:22.400 I believe with all my soul in the cause that I fought for. 20:22.400 --> 20:28.400 But I've come to think that President of yours is inspired by principles, 20:28.400 --> 20:31.400 not animosity. 20:31.400 --> 20:34.400 Have you read that speech of his yesterday? 20:34.400 --> 20:36.400 That one that get his budget? 20:36.400 --> 20:38.400 No, I'm afraid I haven't. 20:38.400 --> 20:43.400 Oh, by the way, Mr. Lincoln, is the President any kin of yours? 20:43.400 --> 20:47.400 Well, now he's a kind of connection through my maternal grandfather. 20:47.400 --> 20:50.400 But I know all the gossip about his side of the family, 20:50.400 --> 20:52.400 so you can say what you like. 20:52.400 --> 20:57.400 Well, what I'd like to say is, yesterday he made one of the great speeches of history. 20:57.400 --> 21:01.400 But I heard the speech didn't even bring forth a cheer from the audience there. 21:01.400 --> 21:04.400 Well, you might as well cheer the Lord's Prayer, sir. 21:04.400 --> 21:07.400 It would have been sacramental. 21:07.400 --> 21:08.400 You really believe that? 21:08.400 --> 21:10.400 I do. 21:10.400 --> 21:12.400 I'd like to believe that. 21:12.400 --> 21:14.400 Oh, well, I forgot. You haven't read it. 21:14.400 --> 21:15.400 Warrie? 21:15.400 --> 21:16.400 Yes, Carter? 21:16.400 --> 21:19.400 Bring me the newspapers over there. 21:19.400 --> 21:22.400 I want the gentleman to read the speech. 21:22.400 --> 21:27.400 These are beautiful, monumental words, sir. 21:27.400 --> 21:32.400 Sir, you'll have to read it, sir. My eyes, you probably know it. 21:32.400 --> 21:35.400 Yes. But shall I read it aloud? 21:35.400 --> 21:39.400 Yes, please do. 21:39.400 --> 21:46.400 Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent 21:46.400 --> 21:49.400 a new nation conceived in liberty 21:49.400 --> 21:54.400 and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 21:54.400 --> 21:57.400 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, 21:57.400 --> 22:05.400 testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. 22:05.400 --> 22:09.400 We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 22:09.400 --> 22:14.400 We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place 22:14.400 --> 22:20.400 for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. 22:20.400 --> 22:24.400 It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 22:24.400 --> 22:33.400 But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. 22:33.400 --> 22:43.400 The brave men living and dead who struggle here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. 22:43.400 --> 22:48.400 The world will little note no longer remember what we say here, 22:48.400 --> 22:53.400 but it can never forget what they did here. 22:53.400 --> 22:58.400 It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work 22:58.400 --> 23:03.400 which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 23:03.400 --> 23:09.400 It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us 23:09.400 --> 23:15.400 that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause 23:15.400 --> 23:21.400 for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. 23:21.400 --> 23:28.400 That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, 23:28.400 --> 23:34.400 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, 23:34.400 --> 23:45.400 and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from nigger. 23:45.400 --> 23:52.400 He sits at a bedside in the prison hospital, reading freedom's words. 23:52.400 --> 24:00.400 And slowly he becomes aware that people are the touchstone for all fame. 24:00.400 --> 24:04.400 People are the ultimate historians of the great. 24:04.400 --> 24:09.400 He who is the human symbol of their democratic hope is great. 24:09.400 --> 24:14.400 In their monumental memory looms the true memorial of the great. 24:14.400 --> 24:17.400 Theirs is the wreath that really blooms. 24:17.400 --> 24:20.400 Theirs is the perfect tribute. 24:20.400 --> 24:30.400 Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! 24:30.400 --> 24:38.400 This world is marching on! 24:38.400 --> 24:41.400 Thank you, Edwin Jerome. 24:41.400 --> 24:58.400 Where is the doctor's first duty today? 24:58.400 --> 25:02.400 Is it to the people of his own community or is it on the field of battle? 25:02.400 --> 25:06.400 How one doctor made his decision is the subject of our Cavalcade play next week. 25:06.400 --> 25:10.400 Be with us then when Cavalcade presents the popular star of screen and stage, 25:10.400 --> 25:14.400 Elliot Nugent, currently appearing on Broadway with Catherine Hepburn. 25:14.400 --> 25:18.400 Our play for next week, written especially for Cavalcade by Kavan Ryper, 25:18.400 --> 25:33.400 is The War Comes to Dr. Morgan. 25:33.400 --> 25:37.400 Be with us next week, ladies and gentlemen, when Cavalcade presents Elliot Nugent 25:37.400 --> 25:44.400 in The War Comes to Dr. Morgan, a dramatic story of a young physician in these strenuous times. 25:44.400 --> 25:46.400 Did you keep a penny bank when you were a youngster? 25:46.400 --> 25:51.400 Most everyone did, and most of us were surprised to find how fast pennies accumulated. 25:51.400 --> 25:55.400 War stamps are a means of saving regularly today. 25:55.400 --> 26:00.400 Just one ten-cent stamp buys five bullets for an Army.45 caliber pistol. 26:00.400 --> 26:04.400 Only eight twenty-five-cent stamps buy two hand grenades. 26:04.400 --> 26:08.400 So think of war stamp books as saving banks for victory. 26:08.400 --> 26:12.400 And it is important to fill up your books and not leave them around partially filled 26:12.400 --> 26:17.400 because they start bearing interest only when they are turned in for bonds. 26:17.400 --> 26:21.400 The orchestra and musical score tonight were under the direction of Don Bury. 26:21.400 --> 26:26.400 Cavalcade is grateful to Charles Scribner's son for permission to base tonight's dramatization on the book, 26:26.400 --> 26:30.400 The Perfect Tribute, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. 26:30.400 --> 26:37.400 This is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from our sponsor, the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. 26:37.400 --> 27:01.400 This program came to you from New York. 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