The Purpose Of Lincoln's House Divided Speech

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I think that this fit Lincolns analogy because, the saying is basically stating that when you are afraid or scared you become more timid and this can result in living in fear. Which is what happen when slavery was still a huge hit. Lincolns House Divided Speech was given on June 16th 1858, after he accepted the republicans party nomination as the states US senator. The purpose of Lincolns speech was to show that in order to succeed you must stay together and work as a team. Lincoln used the house dividing as a metaphor to show how drastically things can turn for the worst, when you turn on each other. The analogy that this is comparing in “These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse preparatory to mounting him

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