Did God help elect Trump?
I hate to agree with Sarah Huckabee Sanders
When most people are asked what is their favorite speech by Abraham Lincoln, they mention the Gettysburg Address. For me, however, the greatest speech of his, indeed perhaps the greatest speech ever given, is his Second Inaugural Address.
For those who haven’t read it, it is worth your while. It is beautiful.
He started by giving a justification for the war:
“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 the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one 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.”
This was a statesman, and it is worth remembering him at this time in our history, when somebody so unlike him occupies his position in the White House.
Interestingly, Lincoln was not always so. Indeed, when he first ran for state legislature in Illinois, he did his best to…
