What is the meaning of the word offenses as used in the first line of the fifth paragraph?
a) breaking the law
b) attack or assault
c) causing injury, causing harm or hurt
d) sin; wrongdoing against someone else

Paragraph: 1 Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

consonance, it has the repetition of the consonants in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds.

i believe that is the truth if thats what you where asking for