“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourself the aggressors…

Question

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have been strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”



-- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address


(pick an answer)


To whom was this part of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address directed?



Southern plantation owners

Northern factory workers

Southern secessionist states

Northern military members

Answer 1

Southern secessionist states