In order to unite the scarred nation in his second term, Lincoln must first dispel the anger and hatred felt by the northerners for the southerners. At the end of his second paragraph, in lines 24 through 27, Lincoln uses ambiguous pronouns to place the blame on how the war began in order to lessen the focus on the South as the cause of the war. When he claims “one party” wanted the war, and that “the other” accepted it, Lincoln assumes his audience realizes he is talking about the South and the North, given the contemporary situation at the time. However, The ambiguous nature of the phrase avoids directly naming the parties because that would encourage the spread of blame on the Southern rebels. Later, in lines 37-44, the two parties link
