“The Almighty has his own purposes, woe unto the worth.” Lincoln stays away from choosing words that would be sensitive to the north and south. Lincoln uses hopeful and unifying diction to make the country whole and not two separate parts. Throughout his speech he uses “we” and “us” to show unity and. He tells the citizens “To care for, for him who shall have borne the battle for his widow and his orphan.” Lincoln tired to include both sides to show unity and appeal across to the Union and Confederacy. Lincoln ends his inaugural speech with, “To do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” He wants to unite the North and South to be one again.
Lincoln’s second inaugural address Lincoln took a very different approach to this speech than he did in a document such as the emancipation proclamation. Rather than taking a lawyers approach and using technical language, he decided to keep his address short and sweet. Lincoln used a good technique in his address when talking about the civil war. At the time of the speech the war was still active, but the Sherman’s march to sea had commenced and the north had all but won the war. During his address when speaking on the subject of the civil war, Lincoln, rather than placing the blame on the south of the north, places the blame on slavery, and says war was gods means of serving justice on the great injustice that was slavery.
As President of the United States Abraham Lincoln not only played a major role during the civil war but also in the events preceding the war and his presidency. Lincoln was running for President in a country united by law but separated by political, social and economic differences. After winning office Abraham Lincoln had to deal with the issue of the Southern states seceding and also the outbreak of civil war. In conducting the civil war Lincoln had to successfully address an array of specific and inter-related issues if Union victory was to be attained. These include; marshalling the American economy to meet the tremendous war needs of several million soldiers, raising a citizen's army of volunteers willing to be trained and to die for the Union, adopting war strategies for the Union Army, handling foreign affairs, dealing with the problem of slavery without destroying the democratic freedoms upon which the nation was founded.
When the government or the president addressed this issue they were practicing the art of rhetorical discourse by addressing and reacting to the given situation. Without the problem of health care reform, it is just pointless conversation occurring or what we call “small talk,” at the very least. Bitzer explains that there are three parts that make up a rhetorical situation in order for discourse to occur; exigence, audience, and constraints. The exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect or an obstacle. If I use the speech former President Bush gave after the 9/11 attacks as an example, he delivered those speeches due to the fact that there was a situation that required attention, or exigence.
.young Americans.” President Truman did these bombings because he was not thinking about himself, but he was thinking about others. In conclusion, bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been one of the ideas that many people have their opinions on. As I said before, the President really did not think about himself. He did not bomb just because he wanted too. The president did this because he had important reasons.
Ryan Dunkleberger HIST 1301-10 Professor Robertson The First Inaugural Address “As Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded from the Union. More threatened to follow and the nation was on the edge of civil war. Lincoln pleaded for peace, the continuation of the Union, and the preservation of the Constitution. This address was an appeal to the nations sense of community, and the idea of all men uniting for the common defense of freedom, which the Constitution stood for.” During a time of unrest in the country and shortly before the civil war, President Lincoln relied on the Constitution in an attempt to draw the people together, but also tried showing them when the Constitution would apply to the States. During his inaugural speech, which was directed more to the people of the South, and was intended to succinctly state Lincoln's intended policies and desires toward that section, where seven states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
Safire discusses how Lincoln used the “Declaration of Independence when stating “that all men are created equal” (Safire 42). Safire continues discussing this same idea in the eighth paragraph to highlight his argument about the image of birth with the wording of the beginning of the “Declaration of Independence.” Safire also discusses how Lincoln, like many other speechwriters, employ other great speakers into their speeches when discussing how Lincoln used Reverend Theodore Parker’s words in the conclusion of his speech, but that “Lincoln, . . ., dropped the ‘alls’ and made the phrase his own” (43). Wood also analyzes Obama’s use of references in his election night speech.
Alexis Brant p.6 Miller Aug. 26,2013 Jefferson’s Speech As Jefferson refers to in his inaugural speech, “During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think;” Jefferson was also the author of the Constitution. He talked about freedom in both the speech and the Constitution. My first freedom I wish to talk about is the freedom of speech. As Jefferson said in his Inaugural Address “...unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think…” He is basically saying that no one can tell you what you can and cannot say. That is one reason why the government created the Miranda Rights, so that way you know whatever ‘you say can and will be used against you in the court of Law..’ The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The freedom of speech represents in our daily lives by allowing us to express how and what we
Period 2 During Abraham Lincoln's presidency he had to work to bind a divided nation into one. Lincoln's second inaugural address was set out for the north and the south to push them towards one and to forget, or rather get over, the cultural differences between the north and south to end the civil war and once again unify the nation as one. Lincoln's use of diction, structure, and tone help to give his speech great power and help him to get his point across of the people to the united states. President Lincoln begins his speech with a long lengthy sentence structure all separated by commas. Lincoln sets up the beginning of his speech this way to refer to the war and how long and brutal it has been.
Slavery is SIN!!! Saturday, March 4, 1865 Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address. The purpose of his address was to remind the listeners that the issue of slavery had been central to the Civil War and suggested that slavery had offended God. Slavery caused the Civil War. However both parties, the North and the South, deprecated war.