O’Connor Power admired Lincoln and praises him in The Making of an Orator.
President Lincoln’s short speech on the field of Gettysburg is an oratorical gem of the purest quality, a masterpiece of rhetorical art, and a striking example of condensation. It was delivered on November 19, 1863, during the war between North and South.
O’Connor Power quotes the speech in full and adds a comment of Mr Edward Everett, who delivered the formal oration of the day:
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes