15 1/2" x 20 1/2", 8pp. November 20, 1863 issue of Horace Greeley's "New-York Tribune". Issued less than a day after Lincoln delivered his most memorable speech at the National Cemetery in Gettysburg. The Tribune had a large circulation, upwards to 200,000, so this historic speech was widely read. The fifth column headline reads: "The Gettysburg Cemetery. The Consecration Ceremonies. Grand Military and Civic Display. Speeches by the President, Secretary of State and Others. Edward Everett's Address." Lincoln's remarks begin at the bottom of the column and conclude at the top of the 6th column. In comparison, Everett's speech contained approximately 13,000 words, and lasted 2 hours. President Lincoln speech was 271 words, and lasted but a couple of minutes.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that Nation or any Nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the refinished work that they have thus so far nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain: that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that Governments of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Disbound, complete, with just few areas of small age spots along the edge. The name "L.A. Spaulding" appears at the top right corner, likely the subscriber to the Tribune. Overall an exceptional example of this rare newspaper.