Daniely ModestoEnglish 48A
Journal for Abraham Lincoln
September 25, 2009
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
“Lincoln, one week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House, when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin, he saw his own face.” A. Lincoln Library.
Lincoln explains that both- North and South- did not want the war but they could not just say no. His words were quite disappointed and weary, while he tried to reconciliate his people. Lincoln used of religious images, and his belief in God in order to compose people as common citizens of one nation only. He places guilty, but both sides are blameworthy. Lincoln’s speech was political and spiritual altogether. Using his Biblical quote he states: “Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;” Lincoln’s speech was a plea to the people to forget the past and start a new nation.
Abraham Lincoln determination was a great influence in the world then and today. He achieved one of the most memorable and influential goal in the American History. If he had not fought for his ideals, there would be a chance that slavery would still exist. His speech was not very long, but very touchable and persuasive.
