In his second inaugural address that was presented on April 10, 1865, Abraham Lincoln used a serious tone to describe the war events since his last inauguration. Two central ideas that can be culled from that passage are;
- B) Neither side wanted a war nor could foresee the awful consequences of its occurrence, and President Lincoln believes that the Civil War was God's way of punishing the United States for its history of slavery.
In that inaugural speech, we see President Lincoln explaining how the war began because of the persistence of the South to sustain slavery and the Northern desire to hold the nation together.
He also mentioned that the war could be God's way of punishing the Americans. He said this here:
If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came,
Therefore, option B is correct.
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