Paul Cooney
AP American
Mr. DeCarlo
20 November 2006

LAD 15- Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

On March 4, 1865, at the start of his second term as President of the United States, Lincoln addressed the nation for a second time. The victory over the secessionists in the Civil War was within sight and slavery was coming to an end, Lincoln spoke not of success over the south, but rather of loss and remore he had for the fallen men. He reminded people how wrong they had been for allowing such a terrrible war to occur, where brothers fought and killed eachother. He reminded the nation that everyone should take care of eachother, as fellow Americans. (“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan") Lincoln also makes referance to the beginnings of Reconstruction, in which the people will “bind up the nations wounds.”