Persuasive Letter To Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States in 1860, a time where the U.S was in a dire situation pertaining to slavery and its problematic ways in terms of ethics. Many Southern States decided to take matters into their own hands and secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America, rightly fearing that the Republican Party will harm their booming agricultural economy with the end of slavery. President Lincoln dedicated his first inauguration address to implore citizens that these problems could be fixed without the impending doom in form of the Civil War. In essence, President Lincoln was attempting to persuade everyone to keep the Union preserved.
President Lincoln already knew that the south is apprehensive

of him being the President since he did not win any of the Southern States. Lincoln in his address did the opposite of what the Southern States were concerned about where he puts their mind at ease by saying that he has no lawful right or purpose to interfere with the institution of slavery. President Lincoln reiterated the rights of States to be able to determine if they wanted to keep slavery or not, He also believed that avoiding Civil War was far more important than ending slavery right then.
President Lincoln continues comforting the South by promising to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which is a law written in the Constitution [Article IV] that orders Northern States to return runaway slaves when they are requested by their owners.

Although there was controversy from the North on whether the Fugitive Slave Act should be enforced, Lincoln notes that he will uphold the Constitution and preserve the laws of the United States.
Then President Lincoln goes on explaining to the South that secession would not be tolerated and that any disruption of the Federal Union will have definite consequences and make the country less perfect. Therefore, the Union must stay perpetual. Lincoln continuous by saying that no State is allowed to get out of the Union, because it is a violation to the constitution and that the North will not allow the South to abuse the constitution by seceding from the United States.
President Lincoln then started address the argument of slavery in territories that are yet to be States. Where Slave States are concerned about whether the territories are going to be free, fearing that when the day comes and the territories become free states, those states will vote against slavery in Congress and end slavery by law. Lincoln asserted that the Constitution does not answer what to do about slavery in the territories. Lincoln suggests the Southern and the Northern States that are still in the Union should come together where it is easier to create laws

together as a nation than a treaty between two countries.
“Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them.” President Lincoln means that there is no physical barrier to separate the Confederacy from the Union and that we will always see each other.
President Lincoln says that the momentous issue of civil war is in your hands my fellow dissatisfied countrymen not in mine meaning both the southerners and northerners. Suggesting that both sides should come together and do what is good for the United States and avoid a Civil War.

Finally, President Lincoln finishes his address by reminding the Southern States and Northern States that “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”