Licoln created a tone of rightousness indignation by strongly expressing his feelings about slavery in the South through the speech he gave when taking the office of his second term. He didn't like the fact that people had other people doing there job for them and not getting paid for it. According to Licoln, "one- eighth of the whole population was colored slaves..... localized in the Southern part of it." Licoln was trying to get his point across by saying the North had no slaves and they felt it was wrong for the South to have another man or woman to do their labor and not get any money or anything else in return. The passage also stated, "the object for which the insurgents would rend the union, even by war;while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it." This line shows that the Union was surly willing to fight for the freedom of the slaves in the South. They felt that the South was giving injustnation to the people they kept to work for them.
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