(March 4, 1865)
A president's second inaugural address ought to be shorter than his first, and it should describe the course of the past four years and the hoped course for the next four. All dreaded the Civil War, but inevitably it came. The colored slaves, one eighth of the population, mostly located in the South, were a cause of this war. Neither side expected it to last this long. Both sides pray to the same God, and it is His will that this war has come when it has. Let us finish this work and make lasting peace with ourselves and all nations.
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