Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence from this excerpt of abraham lincoln's second inaugural address contains the best example of pathos? one-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the union, but localized in the southern part of it. these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. all knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. to strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was 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. neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just god's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the



Answer :

The below sentence contains Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address the best example for pathos as follows:

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as god gives is to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who share have borne the battles and for his widow and for his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Pathos means the powerful overwhelming emotion mostly used in literature which evokes the feeling of pity and sadness in the readers.

Here, Lincoln uses the words god, widow and orphan which evokes the feeling of pity in the audience.

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