After four years of devastating war, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected and gave his second inaugural address. Lincoln gave his opinion on God's purpose for the bloodshed the continuing war was causing. Both sides of the war were God-fearing. They read the same Bible and prayed to the same God for aid, but God could not answer both prayers, and did not answer either fully. Lincoln reasoned that God had his own purposes. It was "strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces" according to Lincoln. He introduced the option that maybe the war was God's punishment on America for allowing slavery to continue for so long. Lincoln stated the war would continue as long as slavery did. What the nation needed to do was make peace and care for those who were left abandoned by the war.
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| Jefferson's Inaugural Address was similar to Lincoln's as it was aimed at repairing damages caused by disunion and hostility. |
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