The Purpose Is What Has Endured

The most seasoned analyzer could not put into words what Lincoln’s exact purpose is. “’Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!’ If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences…,” here we see Lincoln placing blame where it belongs without directly pointing the finger at one side or the other. es, but he also knew that this was one reason why the South did not like the North. ” To bring back the Southern support for the Union he recognized the similarities between the two groups, thus showing both sides how similar they really are. Lincoln also shows the similarities between the two sides in the passage, “Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other.

“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. Lincoln had to change the hearts of his people, and as William H.

As Lincoln’s pen starts to form the words, “With malice toward none; with charity for all;…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,” his desire is to heal a broken land. ” Lincoln would keep the support of the North by indirectly stating who started the war; he also did not anger the South by saying, “You did this. Though he had signed Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln knew that, “the issues at hand could not be solved by either emancipation or armistice” (203).