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Harrisburg newspaper finally apologizes for its bad review of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
I guess half the reason I find this interesting is because I grew up reading that newspaper and the concept that the paper in some variation has been around long enough that it did publish a review right after Lincoln gave's his famous Gettysburg Address.
It took them 150 years but the editors finally came out and said that they were wrong
http://blog.pennlive.com/gettysburg-150/2013/11/lincoln_gettysburg_address_har.html
Living on the wrong side of history? The Harrisburg Patriot & Union's notorious 'review' of the Gettysburg Address
"We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of."
With those few belittling and dismissive words, Harrisburg's Patriot & Union newspaper - the Patriot-News's Civil War ancestor - earned itself an enduring place in history for having got Lincoln's Gettysburg Address utterly, jaw-droppingly wrong.
The quote lives on - as counterpoint to Lincoln's masterful rhetoric - not only in scholarly literature, but in popular histories, Internet discussions and even the resource materials for school teachers distributed by the Gettysburg National Military Park.
It also has lived on, of course, as fodder for generations of readers who disagree with Patriot-News editorials, who opine that the mental capacity and judgement of the newspaper's aspiring opinion makers has not improved considerably since the early days.
Living on the wrong side of history? The Harrisburg Patriot & Union's notorious 'review' of the Gettysburg Address
"We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of."
With those few belittling and dismissive words, Harrisburg's Patriot & Union newspaper - the Patriot-News's Civil War ancestor - earned itself an enduring place in history for having got Lincoln's Gettysburg Address utterly, jaw-droppingly wrong.
The quote lives on - as counterpoint to Lincoln's masterful rhetoric - not only in scholarly literature, but in popular histories, Internet discussions and even the resource materials for school teachers distributed by the Gettysburg National Military Park.
It also has lived on, of course, as fodder for generations of readers who disagree with Patriot-News editorials, who opine that the mental capacity and judgement of the newspaper's aspiring opinion makers has not improved considerably since the early days.
The original review is in there too!
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