Comparing Davis and Lincoln's Innagural Address

The bloodiest war in American history, led by Abraham Lincoln for the north, and Jefferson Davis for the south, both presidents, but two different sides. Both garner for peace, yet one is willing to start a war, while the other is willing to accept it. This essay will compare and contrast the political, economical, and social outlooks on Lincoln’s and Davis’ Inaugural addresses throughout the civil war between the North and South. Slavery, laws, and state rights drove the South to start a war, and Lincoln received the war with open arms. Both sides wanted peace, but their means of achieving it and their leaders’ choices and beliefs differed greatly while still holding similarities. Abraham Lincoln had many neutral political views, which contrasted against Jefferson Davis’ bias beliefs. Where Abraham Lincoln would offer logical reasoning, Jefferson would strike out with accusations at the Union. Lincoln in his first inaugural address opens quickly by listing off many ways in which he will hold his bias and use a neutral outlook on the state’s being. Lincoln said he would hold no bias towards any individual state and that he had taken his presidential oath with no purpose to construe the constitution. “I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and wile I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do sugges that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.” (Lincoln, 10)
In the above paragraph, Lincoln expresses a fine neutrality to the current situation and instead of openly attacking southern citizens by accusing them of being unlawful, he appeals by saying all citizens need to be abiding these laws. By stating that he will not