Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Summary: Lincoln begins his speech by addressing one of the most heated topics of the era, slavery. He re-iterates to the South that they need not to worry because he has no intentions of abolishing slavery in places where it has already existed. This idea, which is very much contrary to the way wee view him today, details how Lincoln’s main objective in the address was establishing his goal, preservation of the Union. Lincoln thought the secessionist talks of Southern leaders were un-American and unconstitutional. Lincoln knew that the Constitution was unclear on some issues like slavery and secession but stated that how these things would be solved would determine the fate of the Union. Lincoln concludes the address by stressing the fact that the states of the nation should be friends, not enemies, so that unity and nationality could be restored to the fractured nation.
(Lincoln was the first US President to come from the Republican Party, which just weeks ago had its most recent presidential candidate elected, Donald J. Trump).
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