Lincoln's Addresses

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln explains how the country got itself into a war because of freedom. He delivered the speech at a military cemetery at one of the biggest battle sites. He explained that we were tested as a “nation” to see if we could succeed in gaining liberty. He also let it be known that by delivering the speech on the “final resting place” of people who fought for our nation to live was wrong. Our soldiers went into war so everyone could achieve liberty and our nation could become a better place, but that was not the solution in the end. The Address at Sanitary Fair also depicted the idea of war. This address had an analogy of the wolf and the sheep. It showed how the white man (the wolf) treated the sheep as an equal unless it was a black sheep, and then the rules changed. Lincoln also touched on the massacre at Fort Pillow, where three hundred black soldiers were murdered after they surrendered. This was especially upsetting because they volunteered to fight for the nation, and in the end they god killed.
The Civil war addresses the issues of freedom because the soldiers were fighting for one main goal, and that goal was liberty. The Civil War was the initial breaking point for freedom because there were also black soldiers fighting. The differences between the North and the South came down to a battle for liberty. According to Lincoln, the North wanted freedom for all men, and the ability to do what they wanted with their property which included security and the opportunity for “economic sufficiency”. In the South, he believed that they believed in mastership. These thoughts from the South concluded that they had power over other men and the products of their labor.