In his <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union_Address" id="mwYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="State of the Union Address">State of the Union Address</a> President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" id="mwZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a>.