LAD #19: President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech is short, and at its opening he declares that there is little new news to present to the nation, and that the progress of the war was as well known to the general public as it was to himself. He says how the nation was divided and therefore the war had to happen. He believes the cause of the war was also that all of the slaves 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. The North thought it would be a quick easy victory but they were wrong. 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.