LAD #19: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

At first Lincoln starts out his speech by talking about how he feels that this address is not nearly as important as his first since he is more just continuing his plans and ideas rather than starting new ones since he is the same person and has the same ideas as before. He then talks about why the civil war started. He believed that since the nation was divided,  it started because although he believed the union could be spared without war, others would not settle for the saving of the union without the war. Therefore the war had to happen. He believes the cause of the war was also that all of the slaves (1/8 the pop) were mostly in the south. But although some people wanted this war, neither side expected it to be as bad and long as it was.He then talks about God's role in the war and how people would pray for help but he could not answer either side because they all had the same beliefs of him and it was over the issue of slavery. He sums it up by saying that the God and him want to care for the nation and let it achieve unity and peace within it.