Part B Which excerpt from "Second Inaugural Address" best supports the answer to Part A?
Yet, if God wills that (the war) continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred
and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, ... so still it must be said "the judgments of the
Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds
Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the
same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other.
If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which ... must needs come,
but which... (God) now wills to remove ... shall we discern therein any departure from those
divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him?