Excerpt from The Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln: March 4, 1865 Ers had spent weeks in Washington, trying to secure a peaceful separation. He reminded the Northern people that each side had asked the blessings of God upon its cause; that the prayers of neither had been fully answered; that we should not judge lest we be judged. He sug/ gested that possibly the war was a punishment due both to the North and the South for the part each had taken in the introduction and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.