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He is referring to the first time he was sworn into office.

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People must have been thinking about the civil war during this time.

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Lincoln says that “these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest” (Lincoln, paragraph 3).

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Lincoln says that to heal the nation he intends to “finish the work [the US] 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” (Lincoln, paragraph 4).

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In Lincoln’s second inaugural speech he talks about the civil war, why it is happening, and what will happen in the future.