Lincoln at Gettysburg: The That Remade America “Four and seven years ago….” These are the first 5 of just two hundred and seventy-two words that remade America. In Lincoln at Gettysburg: The That Remade America, the author, Gary Wills, informed us that Abraham Lincoln wanted equality among us and unity as one. In Abraham Lincoln's speech he did not mention any individuals or high officials. Everyone was considered of equal importance and was never different. “Although we call Lincoln's text the Gettysburg Address, that title clearly belongs to Everett.” 1 This is very true, which seems interesting to me. Everett, chosen by David Wills to commemorate Gettysburg National Cemetery, was to be the speaker while Lincoln was only the speaker of the dedicatory remarks. Not only did Lincoln have a favorable speech, but it lasted only three minutes while Everett's lasted two hours. Lincoln presumably wasn't supposed to be there to speak either; he actually just told a correspondent he would be there. It's amazing to believe that a speech of two hundred and seventy-two words can say so much to thousands of people. Wills did a great job in this book showing the importance of the equality, unity, and freedom that Lincoln had created among the people. “This is Lincoln's belief: that the Declaration is a commitment” to all people of all colors, everywhere. "2 Slavery is wrong. We cannot own human beings and have them as slaves, and we should not be kings over them. If you own certain things, how can you free them? You cannot free property; those are just objects, people are not meant to be possessed even further pointed it both North and South.1Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The That Remade America, 1992. (New York: Simon Schuster, 1992), 352Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The That Remade America, 1992. (New York: Simon Schuster, 1992), 105Will somehow expected us to know basically what had happened during the battle at that time and what to expect from both General Lee and General Meade focuses on the fact that prejudice is wrong." They (Lee and Meade) did not mean that everyone was equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social ability..