“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…
"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
To whom was this part of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address directed?
Northern factory workers
Northern military members
Southern secessionist states
Southern plantation owners
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This part of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address was directed towards the Southern secessionist states.