(i) The last words of the speech are: “Government of the people, by the people for the people shall not perishfrom the earth.”(ii) Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States of America.(iii) On the 10 November 1863, a railway train was carrying him to a place called Gettysburg.(iv) It is one of the finest and shortest speeches in English language.(v) He was going there to speak at a meeting.(vi) On the envelope, it was what he was going to say at the meeting.(vii) These words tell us what the best possible way of ruling a country is.(viii) He was not writing on a paper, but on the back of an envelope.(ix) In the train, he was busy with writing something.(x) In fact, the speech on the envelope is now famous as “Gettysburg Address”.
