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A 3 page paper which contrasts Lincoln's second inaugural address with Davis' inaugural address. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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a freedom for the people. Jefferson Davis, being heralded as the President of the Confederate States, was not really President of the United States. But, at the same time their
inaugural addresses both spoke of the struggles between the North and the South. The following paper contrasts the second inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln with the inaugural address of Jefferson
Davis. Lincoln and Davis First off, bearing in mind that Davis was the President of the Confederate States, we can generally assume that his inaugural speech in 1861
was in favor of keeping the power in the South and keeping slaves. By contrast we know that the second inaugural address of Lincoln would surely speak of the freedom
of slaves and the unity of the North and the South as the year he gave his address is the year that the Civil War ended. In Lincolns speech he
speaks of both sides equally, stating that "Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same
God, and each invokes His aid against the other" (Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)). He illustrates how this was the case, yet the people needed to remember "let us
judge not, that we be not judged" (Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865)). In this we sense a sort of equality and a balance that indicates the North and the
South are one, and are of the same blood, and must look forward to better times, together. Davis speech, on the other hand, seems almost irate and determined to
fight and kill to protect the rights of the South in some ways. For example, he illustrates that there should be not animosity between the North and the South in
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