LAD #12: First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

In Abrahams Address he starts off by addressing the heavy tensions that lay between the Northern and Southern states about the most pressing issue of the time: Slavery. He declares his intentions to also respect the constitution as much as humanly possible, and that any official state of the Union had as good as signed a binding contract and were therefore permanently part of the United States of America and could not be changed. He makes it clear that it it not going to be him to interfere with the slavery issue since he has said he has "no lawful right to do so," and would not deny slavery to states nor enforce it in states. His most important goals as president was to insure that the people's property, peace and security do not become endangered. Continuously coming back to how importnat unity for the country was, and that fighting would solve nothing between those Northern and Southern states, and once the fighting was over the same issues, arguement and fighting would inevitably occur. He follows the Constitution on all acts of slavery and decides to stick with it again on the issue regarding fugitives since the memebers of congress swear their support to the whole constitution then they would have to abide by it! "We can not separate" he said with great pride, the constitution provided so much options of these ammendments but Lincoln himself does not exactly recommend them. Lincol then closes simply by reminding his people to take time and not hasten to decide that they are in the end friends and part of one single union.