With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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In 1864, Lincoln was reelected, carrying fifty-four percent of the popular vote and all but three northern states—New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky. The president delivered his Second Inaugural Address from the east portico of the Capitol with its newly completed iron dome on March 4, 1865. The power of the sentiment in the Second Inaugural Address is deepened by its conciseness and brevity, particularly when it is read in counterpoint with Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address. In his second address he concludes with his customary eloquence.
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With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right ...


In 1864, Lincoln was reelected, carrying fifty-four percent of the popular vote and all but three northern states—New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky. The president delivered his Second Inaugural Address from the east portico of the Capitol with its newly completed iron dome on March 4, 1865. The power of the sentiment in the Second Inaugural Address is deepened by its conciseness and brevity, particularly when it is read in counterpoint with Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address. In his second address he concludes with his customary eloquence.