LAD/Blog #20: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

            Lincoln opens up by saying that he cannot relay much information about the Civil War because the public already knows so much about the events. He goes on by saying that in his first inaugural, he had hoped to keep the nation together without war, but as time went on, one half of the nation wanted war to split the nation apart, and the other wanted war to keep the nation together. With these mindsets, the war was inevitable. Lincoln goes on to proclaim that slavery was one of the leading factors to the bloodiest war that exceeded the expectations of both the Union and Confederacy. Even so, Lincoln vowed to end what the South started and take care of the nation when the war was complete.

FDR's First Inaugural Address had the same concerns

as Lincoln, how to keep the nation out of war, but

if it was necessary, how to keep the nation stable in

times of war. FDR attempted to keep the US neutral

in the European war, but knew he would eventually

have to take his country into war.