ah hell, while I'm at it, I would also like to encourage people to actually READ the Gettysburg address. Then in doing so, when finding that it only pertained to certain states (most if not all were confederate so he wasn't even president of them), you may just want to re-think the whole "Lincoln freed the slaves" notion. (please note that I mean that in general and not to attack Steven's clever post) I assert that what really freed all slaves (white, black, hispanic, asian, and other) in America was the industrial revolution which essentially rendered them obsolete.
From what I understand from reading/studying History is that really what the Gettysburg address was, was Lincoln saying 'We won the war you know it, you will surrender soon'.
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall." - Jim Garrison
"Ask not your horse, if ye should ride into battle" - myself
