Abraham Lincoln Speech Analysis

Abraham Lincoln, known for his revolutionary campaign that was the first to state slavery was wrong. History portrays Abraham Lincoln as someone who wanted equal rights for all races that statement is not necessarily true. He wanted the slaves to be free but did not think that whites and blacks could live peacefully together. He changes the way he words things in his speeches in order to gain both sides of the disagreement in order to hold office. His views on slavery increases dramatically while the United States becomes closer to fighting in the civil war.

The world views Abraham Lincoln in history as an abolitionist. History tells us that his main goal was to abolish slavery at all cost. That was not the case, although he found it wrong, he

Lincoln had to focus on the spread of slavery because if slavery spread, he would have a bigger population of people to deal with. In his first inauguration speech Lincoln said, “"I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” He confirmed to the south in this speech that he would not uproot the slaves already in the south because he did not think it was constitutionally correct. Lincoln makes it extremely clear that he does not want the intuition of slavery spreading. In his speech in Chicago, Illinois, he says, “But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end." He knew that saying that he wanted to interfere with the institution of slavery that was established would make the south even