A Lincold secret for the ages

Secret message hidden in Lincoln's pocketwatch - Boing Boing:

"Dillon told his children (and, half a century later, a reporter for the New York Times) that he opened the watch's inner workings and scrawled his name, the date and a message for the ages: 'The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try.'"