林肯第二次就职演说(完整版)

林肯第二次就职演说

林肯第二次就职演说

制度是这个过错的一种，而这些过错在上帝的领域里在所难免，但既已经持续了他所指定的一段时间，他现在要清洗这些过错。憩时，假使我们以上帝的名义让双方从事这惨烈的战争，作为对那引起这一过错的人的惩罚，我们可以认为这件事，与虔诚供奉一个存在的上帝的信徒们归功于他的那些圣德，并无差异。钜们怀着深挚的爱来盼望，我们怀着热忱来祈祷，希睇这战争的重罚可以很快地过去。可是，假使上帝要让战争再继续下去，一直等?50年来无偿劳力所聚积的财富化为乌有，等到鞭打所流的每一滴血，为用刀剑所流的每一滴血所偿付，那么我们也只好像三千年前所说的那样。"主的裁判是完全真实而且公道的。"

我们不对任何人怀有丝毫恶意，我们对任何人都抱着好感，上帝令我们看到哪一边是对的，就坚定地信仰对的一边，让我们继续奋斗完成我们正在进行的工作──去治疗国家的创伤，去照顾英勇作战的志士和他的遗属，去从事一切的努力以达成并维护在我们自己之间和我国与各国之间的一个公平而持久的和平.

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林肯第二次就职演说

林肯第二次就职演说

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at this seond appearing to take the oath of the presidential offie there is less oasion for an extended address than there as at the first. then a statement somehat

in detail of a ourse to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. no, at the expiration of four ears, during hih publi delarations have been onstantl alled forth on ever point and phase of his great ontest hih still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is ne ould be presented. the progress of our arms, upon hih all else

hiefl depends, is as ell knon to the publi as to mself, and

it is, i trust, reasonabl satisfator and enouraging to all.

ith high hope for the future, no predition in regard to it is ventured.

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address as being delivered from this plae, devoted altogether to saving teing delivered from thisurgent agents ere in the

it seeking to destro it ithout ar-seeking to dissolve the

union and divide effets b negotiation. both parties depreated ar, but one of them ould make ar rather than let the nation survive, and the other ould aept ar rather than let it perish, and the ar ame. one-eighth of the hole population ere olored

slaves, not distributed generall over the union, but loalized in the southern p

art of it. their slaves onstituted a peuliar and poerful interest.

all kne that this interest as someho the ause of the ar. to strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest as the objet for hih the insurgents ould rend the union even b ar, hile the government laimed no right to do more than to

restrit the territorial enlargement of it. neither part expeted for the ar the magnitude or the duration, hih it has alread attained. neither antiipated that the ause of the

onflit might ease ith or even before the onflit itself should ease. eah looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pra to the same god, and eah invokes his aid against the other.

it ma seem strange that an men should dare to ask a just god's assistane in ringing their bread from the seat of other men's faes, but let us judge not, that e be not judged. that of neither has been ansered full. the almight has his on purposes. oe unto the orld beause of offenses; for it must need be that offenses e, but oe to that man b hom the offense et.

if e shall suppose that amerian slaver is one of those offenses hih, in the providene of god, must needs e, but hih,