President Lincoln uses emotional appeal in his first inagural address. We know this because of some of his word choices:
-<span>The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
This touches on the heart. This is also called in Latin, Pathos.
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The thesis statement is the first line in the first paragraph. The reason is in the beginning of the first paragraph, to have the career they want.