Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

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Abraham Lincoln In Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural speech, his tone, style, and religious references keeps citizens and the audience present to believe there s hope and there are better things to come from what has occurred and what is to come. The country will reunite and become one. Lincoln tired to not be hard and blunt to offend the confederate states but he still restates the conflict. If he were to offend the Confederacy it would only make the problems occurring to become worse. He says that the states were on the verge of jeopardizing the union and country. Not only that but also the beginning of the war. He proceeds on stating the reasons of conflict being cautious to not blame either side. Even though the war was still in…show more content…
By doing this Lincoln tries to state the factor in which each side has something in common with one another. Each side has been praying for themselves and God can’t please everyone but for the slaves to be free. “All read the same bible, and pray to the same god, and each havoked is aid against the other.” Along with showing of similarities, Lincoln uses many biblical allusions to give a voice of religion and Christianity. He chooses allusions that don’t favor one over another. “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. His voice, biblical references, word choice, unifying diction, pace and similarities all lead to his purpose of uniting the country once more and putting aside the differences to become one,
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