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.
abraham lincoln, second inaugural address
available at abraham lincoln papers at the library of congress
1. according to the excerpt above, how did president lincoln hope to reconstruct the nation after the
civil war?