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 wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether."

what is the purpose of this passage from president lincoln’s second inaugural address?

to argue that the impact of the war has not yet matched the impact of slavery.

Explanation:

President Abraham Lincoln, for his second Inaugural speech for his second term as president, gave a touching speech where he emphasized on the need to lay importance on the effects of slavery for which all Americans, North as well as South, are implicit. And "this mighty scourge of war" is the divine punishment for the acts of discrimination against the blacks as acts of slavery. And even after all that has happened, the impact of war is nothing in comparison to what the slaves had to go through under the slavery system.

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