In the style of the day, it read more like a letter from a friend, beginning with an apology: "My dispatch last night concerning the exercises yesterday, by occupation of the wires, was made necessarily brief," he wrote.
Daniel Weinberg, owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago has an original copy of the Tribune from that day for sale and says the phrase "occupation of the wires" was a dig at the Associated Press, with which the Tribune and other Midwest newspapers had a feud..
Much of the article was about the speech that proceeded Lincoln's by Edward Everett: "The crowd was packed so densely that the marshals who sat on their horses amidst the multitude, could not move toward the desired quarter; but at length an impressive passage of the orator, contrasting the importance of the Grecian struggle at Marathon, which was like that of our republic, on which spot where he stood, the dense crowd gave way, and a breathless attention was maintained throughout."
I doubt that would happen today as Everett spoke for over an hour.
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