Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, (1865) asserts that the civil war is being fought over the issue of slavery and while the two side may currently feel hostilities toward each other it is vital to reunite and accept each other. Lincoln uses repetitive word choice (he repeats the word"war" throughout the passage) and parallelism ("With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as...") to emphasize how the war must end and the nation must be reunited. Abraham Lincoln emphasizes the issues of the war on the nation to convince the South that he has not written them off and that he plans on bringing them (the states) all together. In the second Inaugural address Lincoln directly addresses the Northern States, but indirectly is talking to the entire nation, urgin them all to accept their differences and reunite to become a stronger nation.
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