Select TWO sentences from below that show Lincoln's optimism regarding the outcome of the war.
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. Theprogress 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 itis
ventured
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously
directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it