Newspaper regrets calling Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 'silly remarks'

It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said it should have recognised the greatness of president Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at the time it was delivered.

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, about 35 miles northeast of Gettysburg, retracted a dismissive editorial penned by its Civil War-era predecessor, the Harrisburg Patriot & Union for the president’s speech, which is now considered a triumph of American oratory.