Second Inaugural Speech Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Speech  Saturday, March 4, 1865


     On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed
to an impending civil war.  All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.  While the inaugural address was
being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent
agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.

    This passage is being historically summarized by Lincoln.  He has taken all the years that have
led to the war.  He explains to the country the different factions that led to the war and their reasons.

     I chose this because, this was about the different factions, pro and con, on slavery and against.
A lot of people did not condemn slavery but considered it morally and religiously wrong. There
was also the economic benefit that the north no longer had from slaves.  The North was becoming
more industrialized. That alone did not allow the advancement of the South to progress  for the nation.The South"s wealth was primarily invested in agriculture, and I think this has proven to
be true, since after the war, there was a influx of he population to he north.  That attitude has continued for a long time, with the saying the north being the promised land. Today though there is a recent surge
in the population shift of returning back to the south.