OCTOBER 4 "MALICE TOWARDS NONE"

  The Civil War took place in 1861, when southern slave holding states, fearing the institution of slavery was under threat in a nation governed by the northern free states, 11 states (North & South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee) seceded from the U.S. after the election of president Abraham Lincoln. The southern slave states of the south got wind of Abraham Lincoln wanting to abolish the slave trade and succeeded or tried to succeed from the U.S. union, thence the Civil War.


In Abraham Lincolns’ second inaugural address he said, “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.

An estimated 750,000 American lives perished in that war. Imagine, Americans killing… … Americans? It was the craziest war ever. One writer wrote, “The Civil war left a culture of death, a culture of morning, beyond anything Americans had ever experienced or imagined. Every death affected 3-5 people, so by 750,000 deaths, it affected close to 4 million people.

It was a torn nation, even though the northern states won the war and there was no separation of those States, there was still much bitterness, anger, and wanting of revenge. Abraham Lincoln had been back stabbed, betrayed himself, but he stood before the nation and said, let us have malice towards none, charity towards all.

In the book, Lincoln’s virtues, the author describes that this was not something that a speech writer put in his speech, but that this was Abraham Lincoln. That for all that he had been through in his life, he truly had no bitterness towards anyone, no bitterness towards his God, his country or his government or the people and citizens of those 11 states.

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