Emma Leclee's Attitudes

United States president, Abraham Lincoln, in his speech, “Second Inaugural Address” (March 4, 1865), addresses the conflict of the civil war. Lincoln believes that the war begun due to slavery and that it does not have to conquered by fighting fire with fire. He supports his claim by first addressing the opposing views of the war. He then states how both sides searched for a way around the conflict. Finally he speaks about what proposes shall be done during that time of war. His purpose is to address the conflict that risen and caused the civil war, how it will be dealt with and inform the citizens of the United States of his proposition. He adopts a solemn tone as he portrays his message throughout the majority of the passage and transitions into a more shocked tone as he speaks of how other are dealing with the ordeal as if to say, “Can you believe the way we’re behaving?”

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made his speech, “Second Inaugural Address” which was for morality. In order to boost the morality and hope into the Union’s mind, Lincoln spoke about truth about why the war is happening. He begins with saying, “With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured” (Lincoln 302).

With the eruption of the Civil War came one of the biggest tribulations and trials that this country has ever faced, but as we understand the motives of one of the greatest Presidents in American History we can see that the Civil War was inevitable. From his original intentions of merely preserving the Union and holding the country together, to permanently abolishing slavery we can observe why prevailing in the struggle of the Civil War is one of Lincoln’s defining legacies. Thus, as the civil war draws to a close, an old tumultuous era has ended, and a new more prosperous era has

³There are two things I¹ve got a right to, and these are death and liberty. One or the other I mean to have.² (Tubman p.39) Harriet escaped from the plantation with her brother. A few hours into the trip Harriet¹s brother got scared of being captured, so Harriet and him had to return. The next night Harriet fled alone into the forest. She was given food and shelter by many whites and blacks against slavery, along the Underground Railroad. When she finally did reach Philadelphia, the free-land, Harriet said, ³I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything...I felt like I was in heaven. (Tubman p.46) 5 It didn¹t take long for Harriet to realize that the north wasn¹t so ³heavenly² after all. Harrie!

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address clearly shows the cause for which the Union soldiers and officers bravely fought. The equality and freedom they fought for are easily misunderstood but not by President Lincoln. The equality he spoke of does not mean that each individual is completely the same, making their capability equal. Instead, it means that no individual is valued more than another because every citizen has the same value under God.

Sally Louise Tompkins, of Virginia, was 28 years old when the Civil War broke out. At the time Tompkins was an established nurse and philanthropist. She felt

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Mary Chesnut was the author of a popular book known as the “Civil War Diary.” This well-known book painted a vivid picture of her thoughts on the things going on around her pertaining to the war. She was one of the most respected ladies of Charleston, S.C with an insightful view of Southern life and leadership during the American Civil War. In 1840 she married James Chesnut, Jr., who later served as a U.S. senator from South Carolina until he resigned. Chesnut writings were from things she personally experienced, witnessed and saw during this historic time, along with her husband who she joined along the way of many significant sites they encountered, being that he played an important role in the secession movement and the Confederacy. Despite

The world has faced the dangers of war almost since the beginnings of time, and America in the mid-1800’s was no different. Despite the Union having won its freedom from England during the Revolutionary War less than a century before, problems were brewing internally within the young and rapidly expanding country. As slavery boomed in the southern states, the North grew less and less content with this state of affairs. It is said that “to southern whites, the Republican victory in 1860 presented an immediate danger to the slave-owning republic that had existed since 1776” (Henretta, 2012, p. 418). Southerners were not ready to lose one of their most valuable commodities, slaves, which they feared would happen under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, although he promised “to safeguard slavery where it existed but vowed to prevent its expansion” (Henretta, 2012, p. 420). Unheeding of Lincoln’s vows, and hoping to preserve the individual state’s rights, “radical southerners chose the dangerous enterprise of secession” (Henretta, 2012, p. 418).

The centrality of slavery as a cause of the Civil War was written out of the collective memory of the war. The process by which that happened is significant—and important. It happened through a concerted effort to first forget the causes of the war, then to focus on the war as an effort to protect the homeland.” (Brophy)

This paper will firstly look at the process that lead to the recruitment of African-Americans into the Union Army, by analyzing Lincoln’s attitude towards slavery. It will go on to assess the importance of the changing status of blacks within the army, focusing specifically on the example of Massachusetts. It will also analyze how this was reflected in the differing opinions and prejudices held against black soldiers within the regiments of Massachusetts. It will argue that, as a result of increased sectionalism and the threat of secession Lincoln increasingly had to reassess his own position on certain issues, especially when it came to his ideas about slavery and emancipation. Lincoln’s realization that the war was being fought over the ‘peculiar institution’ and his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation were another step away from his hopes of keeping the Union together. From this point, although Lincoln implemented it slowly and reluctantly, it was a gradual process moving from emancipation to the admittance of black regiments into the Union Army. Therefore, as the debate over slavery came to a head, and slaves were freed in the North, so questions about the status and place of African-Americans became a reality that had to be dealt with. It will argue that there was much prejudice against

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Emma Woodhouse, who begins the novel "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition" (Austen 1), suffers from a dangerous propensity to play matchmaker, diving into other’s lives, for what she believes is their own good. Despite this, she is a sympathetic character. Her matchmaking leads only to near-disasters and her expressions of remorse following these mistakes are sincere and resolute. Jane Austen's Emma concerns the social milieu of a sympathetic, but flawed young woman whose self-delusion regarding her flaws is gradually erased through a series of comic and ironic events.

One of the most useful things about the debate between Abraham Lincoln and Steven Douglas in 1858 is that it was held in a time prior to the advent of television. As such, there is a significantly greater emphasis on speech, rhetoric, and verbiage thatncurrently is found in contemporary debates regarding presidential elections, in which candidates can rely upon looks and other superficialities not related to pertinent issues to sway an audience. When left with just the words of Lincoln and Douglas during this famous debate, it becomes discernible that there are two primary issues in the critical years leading up to the Civil War the legality of slavery and the preservation of the Union. Moreover, there is an intrinsic link between these two issues, where it seems as though alterations made to the former may inevitably (and negatively) impact the latter. Thus, when ascertaining Lincoln's position on slavery it is clear that he is not in favor of it. Yet he makes it evident in a number of different points that he is not as concerned with the issue of slavery as he is with the preservation of the Union--meaning that as much as he is against slavery he will permit it so long as it is lawful.

Unlike Elizabeth Bennet, the eponymous character in Emma realizes she loves her romantic interest in a sudden epiphany. After Emma learns of Harriet’s attraction to Mr. Knightley, realizes that she loves him–and only she must love and marry him. As she believes in a potential engagement between Knightley and Harriet, Emma thinks, “How long had Mr. Knightley been so dear to her, as every feeling declared him now to be? When had his influence, such influence begun?–When had he succeeded to that place in her affection, which Frank Churchill had once, for a short period, occupied?” (Emma 386). Immediately, Emma considers her feelings for Knightley in comparison to those she had for Churchill, which illustrates her way of rationalizing her love for Knightley along with dispelling any remnants of affection she may have for Churchill. Emma is completely smitten with Knightley. In addition, her feelings for Knightley suddenly change because of a potential loss, rather than discovering a new, positive aspect of his character. Furthermore, Austen illustrates that Emma has always admired Knightley: “She [Emma] saw that there never had been a time when she did not consider Mr. Knightley as infinitely the most dear. She saw, that in persuading herself, in fancying, in acting to the contrary, she had been entirely under a delusion, totally ignorant of her own heart–and, in short, that she had never really cared for Frank Churchill at all!” (386). Emma continues to reflect upon her