Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address by Levin Jack E

Author:Levin, Jack E. [Levin, Jack E.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2014-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

The progress of our arms, upon which all else 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.

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.

Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA

While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. 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.

Clement Laird Vallandigham was a politician, Ohio lawyer, and journalist who strongly opposed the war and tried, as a Democratic U.S. congressman, to obstruct war-related legistration. Lincoln banished him to the South after he was convicted of treason by a military commision in 1863. He was the acknowledged leader of the Copperheads, also known as the Peace Democrats. They persuaded the party to adopt a peace plank in the Democratic platform for the 1864 presidental election.

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