Lincoln was elected a second time and he says to the people that his second address is not as important as his first one. He talks about his views on the civil war, which has already started by this time. Both sides wished to avoid war, but it was inevitable. It was necessary to preserve the union. Lincoln also talks about how he believes that the arguments over slavery arose becand were the direct cause of the Civil war. The two sides had opposite beliefs: The north wanted to abolish slavery and the south was pushing to spread slavery. Lincoln closed by saying that the Union army would have to continue to fight until the country was whole again and sectionalism failed to exist.
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