Justice

Lincoln created a tone of righteous indignation by expressing himself through his second Inaugural speeech. Lincoln did not like fighting and war. He blamed the South for the Civil War. According to the passage. Lincolned stated " Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let it perish." He felt like the Confederacy started the war in order to continue slavery. He also disliked the fact that we all live in the same country and worship the same God but want to harm one another. In the passage he said "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces." No one expected the war to be as bad as it was. It was more deathly and violent than they intended it to be. His anger towards the Confederacy explains why he had an attitude of righteous indignation, a feeling of unjustness.