He is trying to convince them that he has no intentions of freeing slaves.
His concern over an inevitable conflict between the North and South
In speaking about the second inaugural, it shall be assumed that the question refers to the second inaugural speech given by President Abraham in March of 1865. He had won the presidential election in November of 1864. His opponent was Democrat George B. McClellan. Lincoln's address was the 2nd shortest in presidential history. It is remembered for that but, more importantly because in the speech he blamed both the North and the South for the tragic war each of them had created. He disappointed Radical Republicans because Lincoln did not, as they wished, describe all the ways the South would be punished.
The purpose of the Gettysburg Address was to rejuvinate the morale of the war-weary civilians in the North, "a new birth of freedom." The purpose of the 2nd Inaugural was to assure the South that it would make a soft transition back into the Union, "With malice toward none, with charity to all."
During his First Inaugural address, he asked the South to refrain from seceding from the Union. During his Second Inaugural address, he did not address the South, directly but he spoke to the nation, as a whole.
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Reconstruction Plan.
The south was glad he was dead. The north, however, weren't.
Lincoln's intentions toward the South after the war ended was to start reconstructing the South.
the main idea of reconstruction is to rejoin the south and the north.
It destroyed Confederate hope for negotiated peace.