Mr. DeCarlo
APUSH
18 November 2012
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Lincoln starts off addressing slavery and the tensions between the North and the South. He does not pick a side in the argument and states that his main goal is preserving the union. He said he will not interfere with the slavery in the South and says the constitution doesn't say a slave can leave one state then be free in the next state he enters. He warns the people that dividing the nation over the topic of slavery and tries to reassure the American people that their neighbors are friends not enemies. He puts more and more emphasis on the value of National unity and Lincoln ends his short speech by saying that the men who died for this country shall not have died in vain. That they died for the United States and for freedom.
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