Byrd contrasted the speech with the ``simple dignity'' of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address during the Civil War.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Byrd was supporting the brave Union troops but against Lincoln's Unjust War-For-Slaves too. Probably got on his soapbox about that too. "No Blood for..."fill in your favorite Byrd slur here.
In all seriousness, WV isn't my state, and the Democrates aren't my party, but this corrupt good Old Boy is affront to America being in the Senate.