Answer:
to convey that his speech is not as important as the actions of the people who fought for their country
'The incredible shortness of memory'
Eric Howbsbawm
Step-by-step explanation:
Although Lincoln couldn´t have known the great historian E. Hobsbawm, he probably would have agreed with him. His brevity (as that of a one-line poem) serves to concentrate on the only thing that matters in human history: actions of (ordinary people). Lincoln realised that, however great the eloquence of any given leader of a nation, without the support of the less eloquent but certainly very brave people, words don´t mean nothing.