But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Who does Lincoln appeal to in order to win the audience’s sympathy?

slaves in the south
soldiers who fought and died there
himself
children whose fathers were killed at Gettysburg