Question

According to Lincoln, what was the cause of the Civil War? What was the fundamental disagreement

between the “insurgents” and the “Government”?

Answer 1

Lincoln reiterates the cause of the war, slavery, in saying that "slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war." The words "wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces" are an allusion to the Fall of Man in the Book of Genesis.

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