LAD#19 Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address was shorter and more blunt than the first. He said that the public was aware of the events in the country as much as he did. Both parties clashed and one would rather destroy the country with war and the other would accept war rather than let the country fail. He discussed how slavery was the primary cause of this war and had been worse than both sides had predicted. Then he talked about how both sides prayed to the same God, but he had not answered their prayers, and had his own plan. He concludes by promising to finish the war and repair the nation.






Franklin Delano Roosevelt was faced with controlling and comforting the country during WWII, just as Lincoln had to in the Civil War.