How Did Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Address Change

Abraham Lincoln was one of the most trusted and influential presidents The United States has had. Lincoln was dedicated to truly serving the people and making decisions that would better the country. During the Civil War period, Lincoln gave many speeches discussing issues that were prominent at the time, and are still prominent today. Although Lincoln talked about many issues during the Civil War era, the most important one at the time was slavery. Abraham Lincoln wanted the American people to turn to free labor and its companion of education. Abraham Lincoln gave many speeches throughout his political career during the Civil War era discussing emancipation, succession, economics, political leadership, religion, and slavery. Overtime, Lincoln’s …show more content…
Even though Lincoln’s thinking may have changed with some problems, his thinking did not change with slavery. In Abraham Lincoln’s House Divided speech, he debated on slavery. This speech was given for the Republican State Convention and was delivered to address the Republican colleagues. This speech was said to be too radical for the occasion, but Lincoln’s law partner thought the speech morally courageous. In the House Divided speech, Lincoln said that “A house divided against itself cannot stand” (something). Lincoln was a strong believer that slavery should be put to an end. When this speech was given, a policy had already been initiated five years before, but was not being carried out. …show more content…
In this speech Lincoln talked about how “One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it” (something). Slavery was the cause of war and later, America would pay for the actions taken. Slavery had not yet been abolished, and Lincoln did not practice what he had talked about for so long. He had questioned himself and the American people they had lived the way God had wanted them to live. He questioned if they had done what God had always ascribed. Lincoln knew that there would be trouble in the future, and that it had to be addressed and taken care of. Lincoln’s thinking and beliefs had not changed all too much during his political career. Although Lincoln did many wonderful things for the great nation, he did not carry out his morals on slavery. Yet, America must not look at all the things that went wrong, but pay attention and praise Lincoln for all the things he helped American