Lincoln starts of his speech by saying that he has little to offer the people of the nation and the people already know his views expressed in his first term. He reminds everyone that only four years ago all eyes were directed to the impending civil war. He says that while he was giving that speech that " insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war". He says the insurgents are "seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation". He says that one eigth of the population of was slaves and the issue of their freedom divided the nation. He states the horrors of the current war but he famously ends his speech with "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. "
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