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新SAT必读演讲：《林肯第二次就职演说》

2016-04-05 16:12:07来源：网络

　　新SAT必读演讲Second Inaugural Address

　　Fellow-Countrymen:

　　At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of his great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress ofour arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the publicas to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging toall. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

　　On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it;all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving teing delivered from this urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolvethe Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, butone of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union,but localized in the southern part of it. Their slaves constituted a peculiarand powerful interest.

　　All knew that this interest was somehow the cause ofthe war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against theother.

　　It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must need be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comet."

　　If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which,having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern there in any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?

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