Lincoln begins his address by stating that there is not a lot more information he can give and no cause for a long speech. His first talks about how the country 4 years back knew about the approaching civil war and tried to halt it in its tracks. His then reflects about how his 1st inaugural address was spoken in the hops of preventing war while this one was in hopes of winning the war and bringing the union back together again. The North and the South could not be content with the other and so they had to go to war although Lincoln points out the the North went to war to keep the union together whereas the South is content to let the nation perish under split opinion. Lincoln continues with talking about how slavery was the main cause of the war and that neither side was ready for just how brutal of a war it had become. Towards the closing of his speech, Lincoln talks about how God has set out this war upon them to punish them for their selfishness and how it is meant to teach a lesson in humility and that everyone is brother and sister. Lincoln ends his speech talking about how he will try his best to put a stop to the war and restore unity among the union delivering a very famous quote: "with malice towards none, with charity to all...".Woodrow Wilson echoed the same sense of unity during his 2nd Inagural Address.
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