“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges April 4, 1864 (Donald page1) Abraham Lincolns only motive when he first took office, as president on February 23, 1861, was to preserve the broken Union. He was in fear of assassination and his trip to the White House was in disguise in order to escape death. He went into his position as president already in chaos because …showed first 75 words of 1352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1352 total…to be the victor of the war. Most of Lincoln’s speeches were to promote peace but he was not going to let the nation fall. The fight will be the only way to hold the country in one piece. Lincoln was persuasive in many ways especially in his speech, but he was unable to capture the peace that was already broken before he was president. He had to face a country in Civil War.