"'A house divided against itself can not stand.' I believe this government
cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
Edward Everett made the main oration at the dedication of the
cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln was to make only a few brief remarks.
Yet those few remarks are now remembered.
James Buchanan 1857 - 1861
Andrew Johnson 1865 - 1869
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