LAD #19: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

In Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln says that a detailed statement is more proper now than an address.Lincoln states that he has no idea when the war will end, but hopes it will pass by fast.  His first address was directed towards saving the Union and attempting to avoid war but "one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came." Lincoln blames the war on the slavery to have separated the country. Both the South and North are similar in many ways because they are all the same people under the same God. Lincoln also states that God's plan will finish what was started. Lincoln will forgive his secessionists as they repair the Union and the destruction.