Examine the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. “With malice (resentment, bad feeling) toward
none, with charity for all,…let us strive on (make efforts) to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” How did the Congressional Republicans disagree with the views expressed in this passage? A) They wanted former Confederate leaders to return to local public office. B) They believed the South should be severely punished for causing the war. C) They thought Southern states should be immediately readmitted to the Union. D) They did not think the freedmen were able to exercise full civil and political rights.
