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, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

–Second inaugural address,
Abraham Lincoln

What does Lincoln wish to do through this final sentence of the speech?

A. leave the listener feeling sad and hopeless

B. cause the listener to feel angry about the length of the unwinnable war

C. stir up emotions about the lives lost in the war and encourage the listener to help end it

D. make the listener blame the South for the ongoing violence