At multiple points in the speech, Lincoln refers to the idea of righteousness or doing what is right. How does Lincoln make a connection between righteousness and the war? Lincoln suggests that the war was a righteous war because it was fought for good reasons: to preserve the Union and to restrict the expansion of slavery. Lincoln claims that God is blessing the North with victory because the North has right on its side. Lincoln claims that after the war, America will be an example of righteousness to the rest of the world because the slaves have been freed. Lincoln asserts that he was reelected because he did the righteous thing by freeing slaves through the Emancipation Proclamation.