Having served the first term, Abraham Lincoln - the 16th president of the United States of America, during his second Inauguration for another term strove to unite the South and the North who were both in a civil disruption that has been termed the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America, while abolishing the slave system.
Central to that conflict were the following issues:
The southern states wanted to exert their strength over the Federal Government and abolish laws that interrupted or obstructed them from keeping slaves. It was important for them because a huge percentage of the wealth of the south was built and managed by slaves.
President Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, had secured victory without any vote from the south. Knowing that all power to control and expand slave territories had waned, the south sought secession which led to war.
In the third paragraph of this speech, President Lincoln exerted the need to do away with slavery altogether. He reasoned that how could the North and South pray to the same God to put the other party in a state of disadvantage? To strongly assert his position against slavery, he states in the 14th sentence of the 3rd paragraph:
"Yet, if God wills that it (the war) continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether'.
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