Answer:
B) the North and the South
Explanation:
The excerpt the questions refers to is the following:
"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully."
In this passage, Lincoln talks about the two main sides of the war. He calls one side the insurgents and the other side the Union. The insurgents are the Confederacy in the South, while the Union refers to the North. Lincoln argues that although both parties were fighting each other, they also had some commonalities. Neither party wanted a long war, neither one thought slavery would end before the war and both of them prayed to God for victory.
