Alonso Singh

Social Studies

16 February, 18:09

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

The ideas presented in Lincoln's second inaugural address were mainly influenced by A) the slaves in the South. B) his strong religious beliefs. C) his burning passion to be re-elected. D) the Civil War that began during his first term of office.