...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive;...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. (8.332) Lincoln's strangely exaggerated decorum allows him to refrain from directly taking credit for...

...TRANSCRIPTIONS Page 13: President Lincoln's second inaugural address Transcription excerpt Fellow Countrymen: On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago,...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...

...glared at the man he felt had ruined the South, the only worthwhile civilization on the continent. "On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed toward an impending civil-war. "All dreaded it — all sought to avert it...Both parties deprecated...

...to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. [5] With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. [6] On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future,...impending civil war. All dreaded it; all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future,...impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future,...impending civil war. All dreaded it— all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...

...the war's end in little more than a month and reached out to all Americans. FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN: ... On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago...impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...

...divisions of personality. (Triple appeal elements are embedded in italics, below). Lincoln avowed: On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago,...were anxiously directed to an impending civil war (impulse). All dreaded it — all sought to avert it (impulse). While the inaugural address was being...