All the President's Men

PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS. . PART B: Which of the following best supports the answer to Part A?

Upon whom does Lincoln cast blame for the civil war and to what effect?( PART A ) A. “On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.” (Paragraph 3) B. “Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. (Paragraph 4) C. “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.” (Paragraph 4) D. “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”” (Paragraph 6)
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B. “Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. (Paragraph 4)

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