All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war." Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of this great conflict which is of primary concern to the nation as a whole, little that is new could be presented. But mostly I suspect they can’t relate to the religiosity and fatalism of it. Full access is for members only.BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email.We must believe in luck. The prayers of both could not be answered. . With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Is a Speech for the Ages With malice toward none, with charity toward all, the president seeks to binds the wounds of the nation In August 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was so unpopular and the war so hated that he was certain he would not be reelected in November. These words truly belong to the Ages.I agree. Perhaps you find no evil in slavery, or at least consider it less evil than waging war to abolish it and to preserve the Union from unconstitution . Please do not reprint original material from this blog without permission. First, discourse has changed a good bit since the 1860s. Ronald White’s book “Lincoln’s Greatest Speech” is the standard on the second inaugural.Lincoln had a gift for speech. Feel no ill will towards anyone, feel kindness toward everyone.This is a quote from the final paragraph of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address given on March 4, 1865, a little under six weeks before his assassination. It’s worth reading again on this its 150th anniversary.Reflecting on Lincoln’ speech and the tragedies of El Paso and Dayton, I ask:Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address is evidence of a degrading and fanatic religious fatalism which is utterly unworthy of an American President and has no place in American politics. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. All rights reserved. Virginia governor Ralph Northam has promised to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Richmond. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.This speech moves me every time I read it. (Some of them are only dimly aware that there are two Testaments!) “God” did not will the war, Lincoln did. At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Or perhaps instead you manage to convince yourself that the American Civil War was not actually predicated upon the issue of slavery – that it was a “simple” matter of “State’s Rights”, and self determination.But whatever your deviant interpretation of the course of events, the fact remains that your own argument applies equally well when leveled against your own position. What has always moved me is how much Lincoln could say in so few words, which I think is why both rank at the top. Become a Member and discover books that entertain, engage & enlighten.A powerful portrait of a young Ugandan girl and her family.In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley.Visitors can view some of BookBrowse for free. But even as a non-Christian, I find the words very moving–the profound humility, the desire to heal. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Lincoln stands in the center, with papers in his hand.African American U.S. troops marching at Lincoln's second inauguration. . With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Tice is at Doug.Tice@startribune.com. Some say Gettysburg while others point to the second inaugural. That’s it, no war.Why yes – all he had to do was stand idly by and allow his fellow countrymen to ensure that millions of human beings would continue to toil in abject slavery, and to allow millions more yet unborn to suffer the same fate. Whether Northam will don blackface or his Klan hood to the removal ceremony remains to be seen, but woke leftists’ seem happy to overlook the Governor’s past racial offenses in their hatred of the long-dead general.“Robert E. Lee was a racist traitor who fought against the union,” tweeted CNN’s Keith Boykin.
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