"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
In this quote, President Lincoln doesn't address the deaths lost through the civil war, but instead brings the more "important" issue that the nation is no longer a union and will no longer endure.
